From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Richard Stallman To: mark@codesourcery.com Cc: jbuck@synopsys.COM, gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: type based aliasing again Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 00:17:00 -0000 Message-id: <199909110726.DAA03281@psilocin.gnu.org> References: <199909090109.SAA28465@atrus.synopsys.com> <19990908184709F.mitchell@codesourcery.com> <199909100634.CAA01812@psilocin.gnu.org> <19990910000721D.mitchell@codesourcery.com> X-SW-Source: 1999-09/msg00433.html I am sorry that you took it personally, because I did not mean it that way. So please accept my apology for hurting your feelings. I'm not angry at you personally, and the issue is not a personal one. Theb issue is the pattern of assumptions that several GCC developers have cited as the basis for their views on this question. It is a pattern of assumptions that treats real problems for real users as secondary to abstract criteria of purity. From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Richard Stallman To: mark@codesourcery.com Cc: jbuck@synopsys.COM, gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: type based aliasing again Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 18:02:00 -0000 Message-ID: <199909110726.DAA03281@psilocin.gnu.org> References: <199909090109.SAA28465@atrus.synopsys.com> <19990908184709F.mitchell@codesourcery.com> <199909100634.CAA01812@psilocin.gnu.org> <19990910000721D.mitchell@codesourcery.com> X-SW-Source: 1999-09n/msg00433.html Message-ID: <19990930180200.2czLcWsz8_aHeKz-V9kayKcIxdYWSN_sdZnryj4fpXg@z> I am sorry that you took it personally, because I did not mean it that way. So please accept my apology for hurting your feelings. I'm not angry at you personally, and the issue is not a personal one. Theb issue is the pattern of assumptions that several GCC developers have cited as the basis for their views on this question. It is a pattern of assumptions that treats real problems for real users as secondary to abstract criteria of purity.