From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19435 invoked by alias); 6 Dec 2010 11:52:02 -0000 Received: (qmail 19426 invoked by uid 22791); 6 Dec 2010 11:52:02 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from fencepost.gnu.org (HELO fencepost.gnu.org) (140.186.70.10) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 06 Dec 2010 11:51:56 +0000 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:46588) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PPZbk-000440-6Q for gcc@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Dec 2010 06:51:52 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PPZbl-0003bk-GR for gcc@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Dec 2010 06:51:54 -0500 Received: from vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu ([128.122.140.213]:3739) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PPZbl-0003Vh-CA for gcc@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Dec 2010 06:51:53 -0500 Received: by vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu (4.1/1.34) id AA06280; Mon, 6 Dec 10 06:55:47 EST From: kenner@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu (Richard Kenner) Message-Id: <11012061155.AA06280@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu> Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2010 11:52:00 -0000 To: AspertameMan@att.net Subject: Re: A possible super feature to add to gcc Cc: amylaar@spamcop.net, gcc@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <1291636116.1605.81.camel@netbook> References: <1291581040.2886.6.camel@netbook> <20101205180415.t3cf4yx7pcw84gcw-nzlynne@webmail.spamcop.net> <1291636116.1605.81.camel@netbook> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: NMAP syn scan (4) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2010-12/txt/msg00177.txt.bz2 > Simply building in a small standardized intrinsic function name to a > common crash function that computer scientists might write to cause > a core dump would make the compiler more user friendly to the non > computer science crowd. I'm confused. Why isn't "abort" the function that you want?