mudflap versus cgraph

Frank Ch. Eigler fche@redhat.com
Tue Jun 22 16:11:00 GMT 2004


zack wrote:

> [...]
> > I think that's the problem.  In the cgraph world, the arbiter of
> > what things are needed is cgraph itself.  There should be a hook
> > that cgraph calls to add additional functions -- after it has
> > already decided on everything else.

Maybe, or else there needs to be an acceptable way of working around
cgraph's limited view of the world.


> > Is this for your IMA fixes?  It might be that mudflap has to be
> > broken for a while, while IMA gets fixed...
> 
> Yeah, it's for IMA.  If it's mudflap's turn to be broken for awhile I
> don't have a problem with that [...]

Please first think through the issue so there is some design for doing
what mudflap (and several other compiler parts) have to do, in a way
that doesn't twitch the "eww, that's ugly" knee-jerk nerves.  Maybe the
nerves just need some botox.


- FChE



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