Re: Linux and aliasing?

[craig@jcb-sc.com]

>I want the _user_ to be able to give input. 
[...]
>I happen to think that the "explicit cast invalidates the alias
>information" rule is the simplest and best one, and gives the user the
>best control without adding things like new attributes or other ways to
>let the user be in control.

In other words, you believe you are a better language designer than
the ISO C people as well as the gcc maintainers, despite the fact
that you know, what, *nothing* about language design, and *nothing*
about compiler design and, especially, long-term maintenance of
compilers?

[...]
>And I would not say "POSIX does not allow you to do that, so why should
>you do it"? 

>I dislike fascist compilers who think they know better than I do.

Then stop using them.

>And I dislike people who think fascist compilers are a good idea.

We dislike people who think the only good compiler is one that compiles
Linux, on the theory that whatever features Linux needs, must be the
exact ones that should have been in the C language in the first place.

*They* appear to be the real fascists to me, showing up on gcc lists
every few months, telling us how stupid, obnoxious, or ignorant we
are to not take their advice by running around like rats implementing
every feature they ask for, but hardly ever listening to our advice.

gcc is a tool, but some people appear to want it to be a wife -- Betty
Crocker in the kitchen, a virgin with the folks, and a hooker in the
bedroom.

        tq vm, (burley)