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Re: Big-endian Gcc on Intel IA32

From: Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at transmeta dot com>
Cc: dewar at gnat dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 17:42:34 -0800
Subject: Re: Big-endian Gcc on Intel IA32
References: <20011217155059.A15788@redhat.com> <Pine.LNX.4.33.0112171704530.2035-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>

On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 05:10:01PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Or is it that the information just isn't carried around in a convenient
> format? gcc does seem to warn about _some_ casts ("discards qualifiers
> from pointer target type", "makes integer from pointer without cast").
> Does it lose the information early for explicit casts or something?

Err, no...  Actually, I don't know what I was thinking.  Of course
we can statically notice attribute differences.


r~

References:
- Re: Big-endian Gcc on Intel IA32
  - From: Richard Henderson
- Re: Big-endian Gcc on Intel IA32
  - From: Linus Torvalds

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