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Re: Mistaken change in GCC (fwd)
- To: Jeffrey A Law <law at redhat dot com>
- Subject: Re: Mistaken change in GCC (fwd)
- From: "Zack Weinberg" <zackw at Stanford dot EDU>
- Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 15:56:25 -0800
- Cc: Richard Kenner <kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- References: <20001122151553.J820@wolery.stanford.edu> <19197.974936625@upchuck>
On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 04:43:45PM -0700, Jeffrey A Law wrote:
>
> In message <20001122151553.J820@wolery.stanford.edu>you write:
> > All I am saying is that I think we could better support emacs by
> > lending enough assistance to the emacs project to make it work with
> > the present preprocessor. I'm fully prepared to do this.
> But that doesn't help existing copies of emacs that are already floating
> around. It would only help new emacs releases.
How is this different from any of the other ways that new gcc releases
break existing software? (Strict aliasing comes to mind.)
zw