c/7153: bad operands for 'movsbl' error

[Eric Botcazou]

The following reply was made to PR c/7153; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Eric Botcazou" <ebotcazou@libertysurf.fr>
To: "Ben Liblit" <liblit@eecs.berkeley.edu>
Cc: <gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: c/7153: bad operands for 'movsbl' error
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 23:05:19 +0200

 > Do we still want to consider that implicit expectation to be a gcc bug? 
 > I'd say yes.  If the optimizer genuinely *cannot* be made to work with
 > uninitialized data, then it should emit an error message (not just a
 > warning) and refuse to continue.
 
 > Generating bogus assembly code is a poor diagnostic.
 
 Why ? ;-)
 
 
 I posted a (not yet reviewed) patch against the 3.1 codebase:
 http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2002-06/msg02298.html
 
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 Eric Botcazou
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