[PATCH][4.3] Deprecate -ftrapv

Mark Mitchell mark@codesourcery.com
Sat Mar 1 00:05:00 GMT 2008


Richard Guenther wrote:
> This is a request to depcrecate -ftrapv which has numerous problems
> making it not work as expected since a long time.  As nobody seems
> to have the energy to ensure it is working I propose to deprecate it
> for GCC 4.3 to make it possible to remove it during 4.4 (and not
> block removing libcall notes by it).

Why doesn't it work?  Can it be made to work relatively easily?  Do we 
need functionality like this for Ada or Java?

Thanks,

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Mark Mitchell
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