From: Olivier Galibert <galibert@pobox.com>
To: Falk Hueffner <falk@debian.org>
Cc: Joe Buck <Joe.Buck@synopsys.COM>,
Dave Korn <dave.korn@artimi.com>,
'Daniel Berlin' <dberlin@dberlin.org>,
mrc.lrn@inwind.it, gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Pointers in comparison expressions
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 21:42:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050713214235.GB41922@dspnet.fr.eu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878y0bd2pd.fsf@debian.org>
On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 01:28:14AM +0200, Falk Hueffner wrote:
> You're missing my point; size_t was just an example, whoever does this
> will know what the correct type is for their system. All I'm saying
> is that we shouldn't go to the trouble to document and kick along some
> language extension, maybe even miss some optimization because of it,
> when there's a perfectly fine alternative to it for the user.
Having the user add stupid, potentially breakable casts which decrease
readability just because the standard says the compiler is allowed to
be a prick is not necessarily a good idea. I don't really see the
point of breaking or even warning on pretty much every memory
management or garbage collection code out there.
OG.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-07-13 21:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-07-12 16:24 Mirco Lorenzoni
2005-07-12 16:32 ` Daniel Berlin
2005-07-12 16:53 ` Dave Korn
2005-07-12 21:00 ` Andreas Schwab
2005-07-12 21:42 ` Erik Trulsson
2005-07-12 22:09 ` Joe Buck
2005-07-12 22:28 ` Erik Trulsson
2005-07-12 22:38 ` Falk Hueffner
2005-07-12 23:17 ` Joe Buck
2005-07-12 23:28 ` Falk Hueffner
2005-07-13 2:02 ` Joe Buck
2005-07-13 21:42 ` Olivier Galibert [this message]
2005-07-12 23:27 ` Michael Meissner
2005-07-12 22:46 ` Joe Buck
2005-07-16 11:49 ` Vincent Lefevre
2005-07-17 16:55 ` Paul Koning
2005-07-18 1:49 ` Vincent Lefevre
2005-07-18 3:13 ` D. Hugh Redelmeier
2005-07-18 13:13 ` Paul Koning
2005-07-18 13:09 ` Paul Koning
2005-07-12 17:03 ` chris jefferson
2005-07-12 23:18 ` Michael Meissner
2005-07-22 23:20 ` Geoffrey Keating
2005-07-13 13:53 Morten Welinder
2005-07-24 1:13 Paul Schlie
2005-07-26 4:43 ` Geoff Keating
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