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Re: [PATCH] C undefined behavior fix
- From: Florian Weimer <fw at deneb dot enyo dot de>
- To: "Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan at cs dot uml dot edu>
- Cc: paulus at samba dot org, jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk (Joseph S. Myers), jkl at miacid dot net, dewar at gnat dot com, Dautrevaux at microprocess dot com, Franz dot Sirl-kernel at lauterbach dot com, benh at kernel dot crashing dot org, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, jtv at xs4all dot nl
- Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2002 09:03:05 +0100
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] C undefined behavior fix
- References: <200201060457.g064vcU145956@saturn.cs.uml.edu>
"Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu> writes:
> Consider a machine like the CISC-based (non-PowerPC) AS/400.
> There wasn't any hardware-enforced memory protection, but the
> OS was secure. Your ability to create a pointer was restricted.
Somebody took the GCC frontend and added a JVM backend, BTW, and he
claims that the result is a conforming compiler. Of course, this is
possible, but I haven't checked...