Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 20 Feb 2000 03:58:53 -0800 | From | Richard Henderson <> | Subject | Re: 2.3.47 pre[45] does not compile |
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On Fri, Feb 18, 2000 at 09:21:42PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > search for the comment with "Gcc-2.7.x has a nasty bug with empty > initializers" and change it to say "All current versions of gcc have a > nasty bug with empty initializers",
At least it was a different bug. ;-)
This one required that you use named initializers, and that both the zero length field and the following field appear before all previous fields were filled in.
> The egcs people know about this and I'm sure it will get fixed soon...
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2000-02/msg00637.html
Should apply (with a bit of fuzz) to most versions of gcc.
> On the whole, I have to say that these kinds of compiler bugs where the > compiler aborts during compilation are a LOT easier to find than the > ones where wrong code is generated ;)
Indeed.
r~
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