Re: [PATCH] avoid strange arithmetic with strings in i386-dis.c

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@suse.com>]

>>> On 11.10.13 at 02:46, Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 04:15:00PM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote:
>> This makes the code a bit less baroque, and also avoids warnings from some
>> compilers.  After the various changes I've committed in the last couple of
>> days, this is enough to get binutils (excluding gold) to build warning-free
>> with a recent Clang.
> 
> Baroque?  I think you meant to say "Inexperienced programmers, minds
> corrupted by the bizarre and perverse nature of C++, ignorant of the
> fact that a C string is an array, find a time-honoured C trick from
> days when life was simple and compilers non-optimising, confusing.
> Clang, catering to these users and written by mad C++ programmers,
> warns about perfectly good code." 

+1

>> 	* i386-dis.c (oappend_maybe_intel): New function.
>> 	(OP_ST, OP_STi, append_seg, OP_I, OP_I64, OP_sI, OP_ESreg): Use it.
>> 	(OP_C, OP_T, CMP_Fixup, OP_EX_VexImmW): Likewise.
>> 	(VCMP_Fixup, VPCMP_Fixup, PCLMUL_Fixup): Likewise.
> 
> OK.

I'm surprised you even approved of the change considering the
above...

Jan