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Re: Trigraph warnings when compiling linux-2.4.0-prerelease1
- To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at transmeta dot com>
- Subject: Re: Trigraph warnings when compiling linux-2.4.0-prerelease1
- From: Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs dot mu dot oz dot au>
- Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 19:23:30 +1100
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- References: <200101020654.WAA03344@neosilicon.transmeta.com> <Pine.LNX.4.10.10101012257430.24087-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>
On 01-Jan-2001, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> wrote:
>
> Joe Buck <jbuck@racerx.synopsys.com> wrote:
> >
> >[someone wrote:]
> >> line 938: printk("imm: bad interrupt (???)\n");
> >
> >This is a kernel bug. That is, a strict ISO C compiler
> >must print
> >
> >imm: bad interrupt (?]
>
> This is NOT a kernel bug.
Well, it's a non-portability. You may consider the Linux kernel's
dependence on GNU C to be a feature, but I think many consider it an
undesirable one.
> >Please direct complaints to the ANSI C committee for inflicting this
> >trigraphs botch on us all.
>
> The ANSI C committee doesn't care.
I'm skeptical about that.
I think it would be more productive if you turned the flame-o-meter
down a few notches.
Cheers,
Fergus.
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