From: Martin von Loewis <martin@mira.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de>
To: amylaar@cygnus.co.uk
Cc: mrs@wrs.com, egcs@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: cp functions not called during testsuite execution
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 09:52:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199808250606.IAA00258@mira.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199808250042.BAA10079@phal.cygnus.co.uk>
> That boils down to a recipe to remove error handling code from the compiler.
> Who would pledge that he uses the 'functionality' to detect some stupid
> typo in his development code?
Are you saying that there is no way to remove presumably dead code
from gcc?
I didn't propose to mark all code not executed in the testsuite, only
lines where nobody can figure out why they ever would have been used.
> What do you do about error returns from system calls that might not
> happen for an entire generation of computers?
Hmm. I'm mainly talking about the C++ front end. The number of system
calls there is rather low.
Regards,
Martin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-08-25 9:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-08-24 4:22 Mike Stump
1998-08-25 11:02 ` Joern Rennecke
1998-08-25 9:52 ` Martin von Loewis [this message]
1998-08-25 11:02 ` Joern Rennecke
1998-08-25 19:31 ` Robert Lipe
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1998-08-24 18:48 Mike Stump
1998-08-23 18:16 Martin von Loewis
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