[PATCH][4.3] Deprecate -ftrapv
Richard Kenner
kenner@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu
Sat Mar 1 11:24:00 GMT 2008
> > Ada currently has to do this itself, precisely because -ftrapv doesn't
> > work, so it's not the case that Ada "needs" it.
>
> Well no one "needs" anything in this sense, any interfaced is Turing
> complete so there is *always* a work around deficiencies in the back
> end. But right now, the "do this itself" is really horribly inefficient:
Clearly. My point was that Ada doesn't need a *broken* -ftrapv. So if
there's no hope of fixing it, we might as well deprecate it.
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