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Re: C identifier lookup speedups, 2/2
Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com> writes:
> On Mon, 2003-04-14 at 12:49, David Edelsohn wrote:
>> With the patch, the scope-2.c example compiles, but the resulting
>> executable calls abort() because v = 4 not 3. With earlier versions of
>> GCC, scope-2.c correctly compiles and runs on AIX.
>
> OK, I see what's going on. There's really no good way to get the
> previous behavior without a major overhaul of now pushdecl works, which
> is not going to be fun.
I have another overhaul in mind - thought of an algorithm that should
be even faster for typical code - but I'm not going to get to it this
week, so I too vote for making this case a hard error.
zw