Re: RFC: Starting a stable kernel series off the 2.6 kernel

[Joel Becker]

On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 05:17:09PM +0100, Matthias Andree wrote:
> There are things that old Sun Workshop versions bitch about that GCC
> deals with without complaining, and I'm not talking about C99/C++-style
> comments. C standard issue? I believe not.

	I have seen many a code like so:

    char buf[4];
    memcpy(buf, source, 5);

accepted by the Sun compilers and run just fine.  When the application
was ported to Linux/GCC, the developers complained their program
segfaulted, and "it must be something broken on Linux!"
	Just because Sun's compiler does something doesn't mean it's
right :-)

Joel

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Joel Becker
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