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Re: 1st draft: PRs fixed in 3.1.1
- From: Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Joe Buck <Joe dot Buck at synopsys dot com>
- Cc: rittle at latour dot rsch dot comm dot mot dot com (Loren James Rittle), gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: 18 Jul 2002 02:08:52 +0200
- Subject: Re: 1st draft: PRs fixed in 3.1.1
- Organization: CodeSourcery, LLC
- References: <200207172325.QAA01592@atrus.synopsys.com>
Joe Buck <Joe.Buck@synopsys.com> writes:
[...]
| > As you know, just because something used to "link" does not mean it
| > "worked".
|
| Correct, but I personally used the feature to track down a memory leak
| problem in the past. I am fully aware of the issues with the
| one-definition rule, and I would never ship a binary that mixed code with
| __USE_MALLOC with other code. Just the same, once the change was made,
| Purify was immediately enlightening. I understand why I now have to
| rebuild the library, but this was not required before.
I'm not convinced that "required" is the right term here. I would
instead speak of "enforced".
I'm having trouble to qualify a hole that got fixed as a regression.
-- Gaby