PING: PATCH: PR objc/18408 (but really a gimplifier fix)

Ziemowit Laski zlaski@apple.com
Fri Jan 21 19:06:00 GMT 2005


On 21 Jan 2005, at 4.14, Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf wrote:

>>> Does that mean - in other words - gcc-4.0 will be of no use for the 
>>> GNUstep people or will you provide an interim fix?
>>
>> The interim fix is the one that we're currently discussing (and which 
>> has been rejected).
>
> And isn't there another interim solution possible, maybe one that 
> doesn't depend on tweaking the gimplifier?

Not that I know of...

> (Btw. are FIXMEs an absolute no-go in GCC? I mean putting in a 
> "solution" that is there only as a temporary band-aid but clearly 
> marked as such is o.k. for most of the projects I know)

You'd have to ask the global write maintainers.  FWIW, I don't see a 
problem with it...

--Zem



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