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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: kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu (Richard Kenner)
Cc: eggert at cs dot ucla dot edu, autoconf-patches at gnu dot org, bug-gnulib at gnu dot org, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: 31 Dec 2006 18:38:54 +0100
Subject: Re: changing "configure" to default to "gcc -g -O2 -fwrapv ..."
References: <20061231010207.C200A48CC4B@nile.gnat.com> <10612310154.AA00174@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu> <87ejqgsjc7.fsf@penguin.cs.ucla.edu> <10612311320.AA17912@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu>

kenner@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu (Richard Kenner) writes:

[...]

| > but from other evidence it's clear that common traditional practice assumes
| > wrapv semantics.
| 
| "Common traditional C" was actually yet another language that was even more
| ill-defined because it included such things as structure assignment that
| weren't in K&Rv1.

Indeed.  Dennis Ritchie is said to have a sticker on this terminal
where "Classic C" refers to "K&R C + structure assigments,
enumerations and void"[1].

[1] http://www.research.att.com/~bs/siblings_short.pdf

-- Gaby

References:
- Re: changing "configure" to default to "gcc -g -O2 -fwrapv ..."
  - From: Robert Dewar
- Re: changing "configure" to default to "gcc -g -O2 -fwrapv ..."
  - From: Richard Kenner
- Re: changing "configure" to default to "gcc -g -O2 -fwrapv ..."
  - From: Paul Eggert
- Re: changing "configure" to default to "gcc -g -O2 -fwrapv ..."
  - From: Richard Kenner

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