From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7427 invoked by alias); 18 Dec 2001 01:43:55 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 7259 invoked from network); 18 Dec 2001 01:42:36 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO dot.cygnus.com) (205.180.230.224) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 18 Dec 2001 01:42:36 -0000 Received: (from rth@localhost) by dot.cygnus.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fBI1gY015881; Mon, 17 Dec 2001 17:42:34 -0800 X-Authentication-Warning: dot.cygnus.com: rth set sender to rth@redhat.com using -f Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 18:12:00 -0000 From: Richard Henderson To: Linus Torvalds Cc: dewar@gnat.com, gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: Big-endian Gcc on Intel IA32 Message-ID: <20011217174234.A15877@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Richard Henderson , Linus Torvalds , dewar@gnat.com, gcc@gcc.gnu.org References: <20011217155059.A15788@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from torvalds@transmeta.com on Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 05:10:01PM -0800 X-SW-Source: 2001-12/txt/msg00963.txt.bz2 On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 05:10:01PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Or is it that the information just isn't carried around in a convenient > format? gcc does seem to warn about _some_ casts ("discards qualifiers > from pointer target type", "makes integer from pointer without cast"). > Does it lose the information early for explicit casts or something? Err, no... Actually, I don't know what I was thinking. Of course we can statically notice attribute differences. r~