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Re: GCC 3.3 release criteria
- From: Christoph Hellwig <hch at infradead dot org>
- To: Matt Austern <austern at apple dot com>
- Cc: Michael Hayes <m dot hayes at elec dot canterbury dot ac dot nz>, tm_gccmail at mail dot kloo dot net,Lars Segerlund <lars dot segerlund at comsys dot se>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org,Stuart Hastings <stuart at apple dot com>
- Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 22:07:00 +0000
- Subject: Re: GCC 3.3 release criteria
- References: <15963.55137.234769.772022@ongaonga.elec.canterbury.ac.nz> <24B9DB7A-4904-11D7-B226-000393B2ABA2@apple.com>
On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 01:00:17PM -0800, Matt Austern wrote:
> not useful as often as a lot of people think it is. If we
> do make -fobey-inline available (which I think we should),
> then I encourage everyone to compile their code with and
> without it, and look at the effect on code size, before adding
> it to their makefiles.
It should be the default for gnu89 mode in the C frontend because
that's what existing code expects. Silently changing semantics is
not a very good idea if it can be avoided.