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Re: changing "configure" to default to "gcc -g -O2 -fwrapv ..."
- From: Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at integrable-solutions dot net>
- To: Andrew Pinski <pinskia at physics dot uc dot edu>
- Cc: espie at quatramaran dot ens dot fr (Marc Espie), kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu (Richard Kenner), gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, richard dot guenther at gmail dot com
- Date: 30 Dec 2006 02:31:17 +0100
- Subject: Re: changing "configure" to default to "gcc -g -O2 -fwrapv ..."
- References: <200612300040.kBU0eqPO013543@localhost.localdomain>
Andrew Pinski <pinskia@physics.uc.edu> writes:
| >
| > C has been a portable assembler for years before it got normalized and
| > optimizing compilers took over.
|
| 18 years. And now it has been 17 years since C has been standardized so
| you can say C has been standardized now for half its life. 18 years is a
| long time when it comes to computers. I know one problem is that most
| people who learn C don't learn about the undefined behaviors until they hit
| it.
But did you learn the history of how and why those "undefined
behaviour" came into existence in the first place?
-- Gaby