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Re: Final intermodule patch
On Sun, 2003-07-13 at 15:07, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Jul 2003, Mark Mitchell wrote:
>
> > Various kinds of system-specific trickery akin to this situation will
> > not work with multiple translation unit compilation, which is probably
> > OK since they are not valid C in any case. However, there should
> > probably be documentation to explain this fact to people.)
>
> The documentation could actually recommend the use of intermodule mode as
> a check for this sort of error, even if the code isn't the sort of code
> for which the extra optimisation could possibly be of use. More generally
> this feature potentially facilitates new warnings through whole-program
> analysis (whether in GCC, or external extensions analysing programs for
> particular defects).
Indeed.
That's among the many reasons why having this infrastructure is so cool.
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