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Re: Bug in local spilling code
- To: law at cygnus dot com, Richard Henderson <rth at cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: Bug in local spilling code
- From: Richard Henderson <rth at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 22:22:31 -0800
- Cc: Bernd Schmidt <crux at pool dot informatik dot rwth-aachen dot de>, gcc-local at cygnus dot com, egcs-patches at cygnus dot com
- References: <19981029150445.A11870@dot.cygnus.com> <2529.909718003@hurl.cygnus.com>
- Reply-To: Richard Henderson <rth at cygnus dot com>
On Thu, Oct 29, 1998 at 08:26:43PM -0700, Jeffrey A Law wrote:
> > BTW, anyone ever notice that nonlocal goto and alloca can not coexist?
> > This isn't new to your patch, and I don't know that we care so very
> > deeply. Certainly I can't think of a nice way around it.
> I don't care enough about it either. Just another one of those stupid corner
> cases nobody thought about when adding support for nonlocal gotos.
Actually, looking into it further, it looks like it is supposed
to work, it just doesn't.
> Leave language design to people that actually know something about it! Damn
> RMS and his silly extensions. Sorry, I had to get that off my chest....
There are a couple o nice ones. Statement expressions, typeof
and extended asms. The others I'm just not so fond of...
r~