Re: Compiling C++ modules

From: Avi Kivity
Date: Tue May 02 2006 - 11:19:23 EST


Al Viro wrote:
On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 06:04:23PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
BTW, C++ could take over some of sparse's function:

And the point of that would be? sparse is _fast_ and easy to modify;
g++ is neither.

I wasn't talking about modifying gcc to do the checking, rather using language features so that the checks would happen during a regular compile. That would mean we weren't dependent on somebody running sparse with a configuration that triggers the bug, but those few who compile the code before submitting the patch would get it automatically checked.

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