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Re: a warning to implement
- From: mike stump <mrs at windriver dot com>
- To: dewar at gnat dot com, gdr at codesourcery dot com
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, nathan at cs dot bris dot ac dot uk, rsandifo at redhat dot com
- Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 13:51:27 -0800 (PST)
- Subject: Re: a warning to implement
> To: dewar@gnat.com, gdr@codesourcery.com
> Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org, nathan@cs.bris.ac.uk, rsandifo@redhat.com
> Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 15:23:48 -0500 (EST)
> From: dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar)
> You seem to be assuming that of necessity a char object can contain
> only valid representations. This is definitely not true on all
> implementations.
It is certainly true on all C and C++ implementations. gcc is first,
and foremost, a C/C++ compiler. We wind up with the reality that
while what you say might be true, no such implementation can host
either a C or C++ compiler, and no such implementation is interesting
while discussing gcc.