Re: [tree-ssa] Merge status

[Andrew Pinski <pinskia at physics dot uc dot edu>]

On Mar 14, 2004, at 10:04, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> If SPEC uses extended lvalues, how did it ever work with non-GCC
> compilers?

Actually SPEC does not use extended lvalue for compilers other than GCC 
because of the
way obstack.h was written.  For some reason nobody say that obstack.h 
was helping out
GCC but hurting other compilers.
In fact Joeseph, you are the one who had obstack.h fixed:
2003-10-22  Joseph S. Myers  <jsm@polyomino.org.uk>

        * obstack.h: Merge the following change from gnulib:
        2003-10-21  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>
        * obstack.h (obstack_1grow_fast): Properly parenthesize arg.
        (obstack_ptr_grow_fast, obstack_int_grow_fast):
        Don't use lvalue casts, as GCC plans to remove support for them
        in GCC 3.5.  Reported by Joseph S. Myers.  This bug
        was also present in the non-GCC version, indicating that this
        code had always been buggy and had never been widely used.
        (obstack_1grow, obstack_ptr_grow, obstack_int_grow, 
obstack_blank):
        Use the fast variant of each macro, rather than copying the
        definiens of the fast variant; that way, we'll be more likely to
        catch future bugs in the fast variants.

In fact there are other uses of extensions in SPEC CPU 2000 in 176.gcc.
Lets hope they can get this right for SPEC CPU 2004.

Thanks,
Andrew Pinski