Re: pre egcs-1.1 testing and Linux 2.1.x
Jeffrey A Law (law@hurl.cygnus.com)
Sun, 23 Aug 1998 18:24:33 -0600
In message <19980823152544.A2229@test.legislate.com>you write:
> David S. Miller <davem@dm.cobaltmicro.com> wrote:
> > And the egcs team has not said the latter. But they will turn the
> > feature off until such time as the fix is made, since it generates
> > incorrect code.
>
> Er.. it *sometimes* generates incorrect code.
>
> Wouldn't it be better to simply generate an error ("sorry, but ...")for
> cases where it doesn't generate correct code. [If Linus's usage are
> the only known cases where it generates correct code then these would
> be base for the template of what's acceptable.]
Unfortunately, we can not detect when it is going to generate incorrect
code.
jeff
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