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Re: [PATCH] Add target hook in C front end

From: Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>
To: Zack Weinberg <zack at codesourcery dot com>
Cc: Eric Christopher <echristo at redhat dot com>, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2001 18:29:23 -0800
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add target hook in C front end
References: <1008537681.10698.50.camel@ghostwheel.cygnus.com> <20011216214050.GE21505@codesourcery.com> <1008539049.10150.55.camel@ghostwheel.cygnus.com> <20011216220635.GF21505@codesourcery.com>

On Sun, Dec 16, 2001 at 02:06:35PM -0800, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> The principle here is that, for a platform-independent bug, I ought to
> be able to take source code preprocessed by a MIPS compiler, run it
> through my x86 compiler, and still see the bug.  Your change prevents
> that.

I don't agree -- that doesn't work now.

Take an x86 .i file, get "unsigned int" and that will not
work on alpha which uses "unsigned long".  Especially for
C++, where operator new must use size_t, and mixing int vs
long is verboten.

r~

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