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Re: GCC's statement expression extension
- To: kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu (Richard Kenner)
- Subject: Re: GCC's statement expression extension
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 20:39:42 -0600
- cc: mark at codesourcery dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <10007280242.AA18275@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu>you write:
> If SPEC really contains invalid code, then we're between a rock and a
> hard place. I don't think we should break the compiler just to
> compile a benchmark. We could patch SPEC, and we can provide the
> patch to whomever we're allowed to, under the SPEC licenses.
>
> Well the amusing part is that the piece of SPEC that won't compile is
> GCC! Indeed, both GCC 2.8.1 and the last pre-EGCS FSF codebase won't
> compile with the latest GCC.
Inform spec if the code is invalid -- they issue patchrelease updates to
deal with this kind of thing.
jeff