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Re: Partial hookization / PR46738 (Was: Re: RFA: partially hookize *_TYPE_SIZE)
- From: Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou at adacore dot com>
- To: Joern Rennecke <amylaar at spamcop dot net>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, Richard Guenther <richard dot guenther at gmail dot com>, "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2010 12:46:22 +0100
- Subject: Re: Partial hookization / PR46738 (Was: Re: RFA: partially hookize *_TYPE_SIZE)
- References: <20101129222332.knwuu1g4gk8c8c4w-nzlynne@webmail.spamcop.net> <AANLkTi=E+cEHzSoZomJdwKL0W9=obO4bjWkpSf7izOcX@mail.gmail.com> <20101201005324.izsiussb8k4occkw-nzlynne@webmail.spamcop.net>
> I don't understand what makes you say this. Partial conversions have
> much lower chance of breaking things when the macro is set up in
> complicated ways, and you also trivially avoid performance regressions at
> non-converted call site.
But what's the point in doing this during stage3? This will give no benefits
to the users and may introduce new bugs; we already have enough of them and
we should concentrate on fixing them. IMO this is stage1 material only.
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Eric Botcazou