On 08/03/2010 06:12 PM, Mark Mitchell wrote:
On balance, I think it's appropriate to make the change. I think
there's an overall move towards ABIs without frame pointers, and
that if x86 stakeholders want to change, it's not our place as GCC
maintainers to do this.
Thanks for the carefully considered reply.
A problem with "x86 stakeholders" is that we've historically been
rather poor at finding our users and consulting them before making
changes. This has resulted in a number of flamewars, particularly
over type-based alias analysis.