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Re: Mistaken change in GCC (fwd)
- To: zackw at stanford dot edu (Zack Weinberg)
- Subject: Re: Mistaken change in GCC (fwd)
- From: Joe Buck <jbuck at racerx dot synopsys dot com>
- Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 16:55:19 -0800 (PST)
- Cc: law at redhat dot com (Jeffrey A Law), kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu (Richard Kenner), gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
> On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 04:43:45PM -0700, Jeffrey A Law wrote:
> >
> > In message <20001122151553.J820@wolery.stanford.edu>you write:
> > > All I am saying is that I think we could better support emacs by
> > > lending enough assistance to the emacs project to make it work with
> > > the present preprocessor. I'm fully prepared to do this.
> > But that doesn't help existing copies of emacs that are already floating
> > around. It would only help new emacs releases.
>
> How is this different from any of the other ways that new gcc releases
> break existing software? (Strict aliasing comes to mind.)
In the case of strict aliasing, we fixed the problem by making
-fno-strict-alias the default in response to user outcry.