Re: Patch for the bounds checking section of http://gcc.gnu.org/extensions.html

[Gerald Pfeifer <gerald at pfeifer dot com>]

On Fri, 26 Sep 2003, William Bader wrote:
> Patch for the bounds checking section of http://gcc.gnu.org/extensions.html
>
> My work changed internet providers, and nscs.fast.net will become newspapersystems.com.
> The new ftp server at ftp.newspapersystems.com is running,
> and nscs.fast.net will go away in a month or two.
> The patch below updates the ftp server URLs.
> The changes also make it clearer that Herman has continued updating the patches.
> and to reduce spam, I swapped my old email address (which will go away soon
> anyway) with my web page (which contains contact information).

Thanks, I committed your patch with some minor tweaks (including using
GCC 2.95 instead of gcc-2.95 and omitting one of the two duplicates links
to Haj's homepage).

Thanks for the patch; unfortunately, you are one of a few who seem to care
about (not) breaking links.

Gerald

Index: extensions.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/extensions.html,v
retrieving revision 1.31
diff -u -3 -p -r1.31 extensions.html
--- extensions.html	22 May 2003 23:29:53 -0000	1.31
+++ extensions.html	29 Sep 2003 19:36:18 -0000
@@ -25,18 +25,19 @@ architecture.</p>
 Bounds checking patches for
 <a href="http://web.inter.NL.net/hcc/Haj.Ten.Brugge/";>GCC releases</a>
 and
-<a href="ftp://nscs.fast.net/pub/binaries/boundschecking";>GCC snapshots</a>
+<a href="ftp://ftp.newspapersystems.com/pub/binaries/boundschecking";>GCC snapshots</a>
 </h2>

 <p>These patches add a <code>-fbounds-checking</code> flag that
 adds bounds checking tests to pointer and array accesses.
 Richard Jones developed the
 <a href="http://www-ala.doc.ic.ac.uk/~phjk/BoundsChecking.html";>
-patches against gcc-2.7</a> in 1995.
-Herman ten Brugge is the current maintainer and has updated the patches for
-gcc-2.95.2.
-<a href="mailto:william@nscs.fast.net";>William Bader</a> has unofficial
-updates for selected GCC snapshots.</p>
+patches against gcc 2.7</a> in 1995.
+<a href="http://web.inter.NL.net/hcc/Haj.Ten.Brugge/";>Herman ten Brugge</a>
+is the current maintainer and has updated the patches for GCC 2.95.2 and
+later.
+<a href="http://williambader.com";>William Bader</a> has
+<a href="ftp://ftp.newspapersystems.com/pub/binaries/boundschecking/";>unofficial patches</a>.</p>

 <p>You may freely mix object modules compiled with and without bounds
 checking.  The bounds checker also includes replacements for
@@ -45,7 +46,7 @@ invalid calls against checked memory obj
 compiled without bounds checking.</p>

 <p>Here is a
-<a href="ftp://nscs.fast.net/pub/binaries/boundschecking/example.html#Example";>
+<a href="ftp://ftp.newspapersystems.com/pub/binaries/boundschecking/example.html#Example";>
 compilation and execution</a> of an example program.</p>

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