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From: kenner@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu (Richard Kenner)
To: mark@codesourcery.com
Cc: ebotcazou@adacore.com, gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org,
	richard.guenther@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Tree SRA and atomicity/volatility
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 01:39:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <10701240145.AA23676@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45B686FB.209@codesourcery.com>

> I'm a big fan of specifications, but volatile is something where, in
> practice, best-effort and semi-formal rules are probably the best we can
> do, in the context of a portable compiler with a big legacy codebase.

I agree, but also think it's more than that.  Things at the level of
what machine code is generated is something that's very hard to fit
into a specification at a language level.  You usually can't do that
without resorting to a "you know what I mean" type of language.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-01-24  1:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-06 13:19 Eric Botcazou
2007-01-06 13:31 ` Richard Guenther
2007-01-06 13:47   ` Richard Kenner
2007-01-06 13:49   ` Eric Botcazou
2007-01-07 11:23     ` Richard Guenther
2007-01-08 11:30       ` Eric Botcazou
2007-01-08 11:52         ` Richard Guenther
2007-01-08 12:43           ` Eric Botcazou
2007-01-08 13:12           ` Richard Kenner
2007-01-08 13:40             ` Richard Guenther
2007-01-08 14:55           ` Richard Guenther
2007-01-12 13:57             ` Eric Botcazou
2007-01-12 16:36               ` Richard Guenther
2007-01-12 17:03                 ` Richard Guenther
2007-01-14  7:47                 ` Eric Botcazou
2007-01-14 14:57                   ` Richard Guenther
2007-01-19 13:58                     ` Eric Botcazou
2007-01-23 16:58 ` Mark Mitchell
2007-01-23 17:15   ` Daniel Berlin
2007-01-23 17:24   ` Richard Guenther
2007-01-23 19:38     ` Mark Mitchell
2007-01-23 20:57       ` Richard Guenther
2007-01-23 22:07         ` Mark Mitchell
2007-01-24  1:39           ` Richard Kenner [this message]
2007-01-24 13:33           ` Eric Botcazou
2007-01-24  1:31         ` Richard Kenner
2007-01-24  9:27           ` Richard Guenther
2007-01-24 13:02             ` Richard Kenner
2007-01-24 13:33               ` Richard Guenther
2007-01-24 13:57                 ` Richard Kenner
2007-01-24 18:31                 ` Mark Mitchell
2007-01-24 23:57                   ` Richard Kenner
2007-01-25  9:38                   ` Richard Guenther
2007-01-25 11:38                     ` Richard Kenner
2007-01-25 16:32                       ` Mark Mitchell
2007-01-25 16:41                         ` Richard Guenther
2007-01-25 18:29                           ` Richard Kenner
2007-01-25 22:03                       ` Mike Stump
2007-01-26  2:37                         ` Mark Mitchell
2007-01-26  2:44                           ` Mike Stump
2007-01-26  2:54                             ` Mark Mitchell
2007-01-26  9:17                               ` Richard Guenther
2007-01-26 10:12                                 ` Eric Botcazou
2007-01-26 13:40                                 ` Richard Kenner
2007-01-26 13:13                             ` Richard Kenner
2007-01-26 19:21                               ` Mike Stump
2007-01-24  0:53     ` Richard Kenner
2007-03-02 14:55 ` Eric Botcazou
2007-03-02 15:21   ` Diego Novillo

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