Patch to projects.html

Joseph S. Myers jsm28@cam.ac.uk
Mon Oct 9 08:06:00 GMT 2000


On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:

> Yes, with a minor tweak: Now that Kazu's patch which added a bit of
> structure is in, please also add a <h2> for this new paragraph.

The following is what I committed, which expands on what needs to be done
with the patch to make this into a full entry.  (This does mean that the
heading as "The old PROJECTS file" is not quite accurate.)

Index: projects.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/projects.html,v
retrieving revision 1.21
diff -u -r1.21 projects.html
--- projects.html	2000/10/09 01:15:32	1.21
+++ projects.html	2000/10/09 14:51:03
@@ -502,6 +502,23 @@
 *foo++ = hack (*foo);
 </pre>
 
+<h2>Patch for sequence point violation warnings</h2>
+
+<p>Related to the previous item, Michael Meeks produced a patch in
+June 1998 which covered many cases of violation of sequence point
+rules, though not that particular case, but it hasn't been merged into
+GCC; see messages
+<a href=" http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/1998-06/msg00316.html ">1</a>,
+<a href=" http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/1998-07/msg00180.html ">2</a>,
+<a href=" http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/1998-07/msg00182.html ">3</a>
+to gcc-patches.  It should be updated to current sources, fixed to
+follow the GNU coding standards (e.g., spaces before opening
+parentheses), have the example cases given converted into a testsuite
+entry, possibly have a more specific option name
+(<code>-Wundefined</code> is the present name, but the C standard has
+many other classes of undefined behavior), have documentation added,
+and be presented again for possible inclusion into GCC.</p>
+
 <h2>Better documentation of how GCC works and how to port it</h2>
 
 <p>Here is an outline proposed by Allan Adler.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk



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