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Re: pre egcs-1.1 testing and Linux 2.1.x
- To: Raul Miller <rdm at test dot legislate dot com>
- Subject: Re: pre egcs-1.1 testing and Linux 2.1.x
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1998 18:24:33 -0600
- cc: "David S. Miller" <davem at dm dot cobaltmicro dot com>, torvalds at transmeta dot com, dkelson at inconnect dot com, linux-kernel at vger dot rutgers dot edu, egcs at cygnus dot com
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
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