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Re: type based aliasing again
- To: jbuck at synopsys dot com
- Subject: Re: type based aliasing again
- From: Richard Stallman <rms at gnu dot org>
- Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 03:26:41 -0400
- CC: mark at codesourcery dot com, jbuck at synopsys dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- References: <199909100720.AAA00135@atrus.synopsys.com>
- Reply-to: rms at gnu dot org
> Other
> compilers are already doing these optimizations. Thus, portable code,
> including most GNU project code, simply must not contain these invalid
> constructs.
People who want to support other compilers might want to remove these
constructs, for this reason. But not everyone cares about compilation
with other compilers. Is Linux ever compiled with anything other than GCC?
And then there are all the existing programs which don't have
maintainers...