Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 6 Jan 2006 18:20:06 -0600 | From | Matt Mackall <> | Subject | Re: [patch 2/7] enable unit-at-a-time optimisations for gcc4 |
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On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 01:05:16AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > And gcc is really picky about type compatibility between source files > with program-at-a-time. If any types of the same symbols are > incompatible even in minor ways you get an ICE. That's technically > illegal, but tends to happen often in practice (e.g. when people > use extern) It might end up being quite a lot of work to clean this up.
If it gave a useful error message rather than an ICE, that'd be a feature.
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