problem building a GCJ-friendly GNU Crypto
Geoff Keating
geoffk@geoffk.org
Sat Sep 20 20:43:00 GMT 2003
Roger Sayle <roger@eyesopen.com> writes:
> I'm currently working on a patch to add an -fevaluation-order command
> line option to GCC, that sets a flag_evaluation_order variable that
> can be checked during constant folding to preserve left-to-right
> evaluation order of binary expressions. This can then be enabled by
> default by the java front-end, which should help make libbackend.a
> more java friendly.
Although I agree that it'd be better if the constant folder didn't do
things that break Java, I don't see why we need an extra command-line
flag for this. GCC already has way too many command-line flags, and
this one seems to add particularly little value.
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- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org>
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