Bug in local spilling code

Richard Henderson rth@cygnus.com
Thu Oct 29 23:44:00 GMT 1998


On Thu, Oct 29, 1998 at 08:26:43PM -0700, Jeffrey A Law wrote:
>   > BTW, anyone ever notice that nonlocal goto and alloca can not coexist?
>   > This isn't new to your patch, and I don't know that we care so very
>   > deeply.  Certainly I can't think of a nice way around it.
> I don't care enough about it either.  Just another one of those stupid corner
> cases nobody thought about when adding support for nonlocal gotos.

Actually, looking into it further, it looks like it is supposed
to work, it just doesn't.

> Leave language design to people that actually know something about it!  Damn
> RMS and his silly extensions.  Sorry, I had to get that off my chest....

There are a couple o nice ones.  Statement expressions, typeof
and extended asms.  The others I'm just not so fond of...


r~



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