Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: pre egcs-1.1 testing and Linux 2.1.x | Date | Sun, 23 Aug 1998 18:24:33 -0600 | From | Jeffrey A Law <> |
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In message <19980823152544.A2229@test.legislate.com>you write: > David S. Miller <davem@dm.cobaltmicro.com> wrote: > > And the egcs team has not said the latter. But they will turn the > > feature off until such time as the fix is made, since it generates > > incorrect code. > > Er.. it *sometimes* generates incorrect code. > > Wouldn't it be better to simply generate an error ("sorry, but ...")for > cases where it doesn't generate correct code. [If Linus's usage are > the only known cases where it generates correct code then these would > be base for the template of what's acceptable.] Unfortunately, we can not detect when it is going to generate incorrect code.
jeff
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