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Re: Re : "bounds checking extension to gcc-3.0.4"

From: fche at redhat dot com (Frank Ch. Eigler)
To: mike stump <mrs at windriver dot com>
Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, tjruwase at stanford dot edu
Date: 15 May 2002 12:06:54 -0400
Subject: Re: Re : "bounds checking extension to gcc-3.0.4"
References: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0205150240400.23832-100000@epic28.Stanford.EDU><200205151538.IAA20200@kankakee.wrs.com>

mrs wrote:

> [...]
> >  i am computer science grad student and i am working on a project which
> > is based on a previous work by Richard Jones and Paul Kelly.
> 
> Hum...  I thought that last best work was last maintained by Greg
> McGary.  [...]

This refers to the ABI-changing wide-pointer implementation in the
bounded-pointers-ss-20000730 branch in CVS.  Its development appears
to have stalled around that date.

> > Their work added a bounds checking extension to gcc 2.7.,
> > subsequently a patch for this for gcc-2.9.5.2
> 
> There is no such version.

The gcc-checker development is still ongoing.  There is a working
patch set at least against gcc-3.0.3.

- FChE

References:
- Re : "bounds checking extension to gcc-3.0.4"
  - From: Olatunji Oluwabukunmi Ruwase
- Re: Re : "bounds checking extension to gcc-3.0.4"
  - From: mike stump

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