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From: Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr@cs.tamu.edu>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Cc: "Dave Korn" <dk@artimi.com>,
	"'Phil Edwards'" <phil@codesourcery.com>,
	"'Zack Weinberg'" <zack@codesourcery.com>,
	"'Geoffrey Keating'" <geoffk@apple.com>,
	"'Ranjit Mathew'" <rmathew@gmail.com>, <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Compiling GCC With a C++ Compiler (g++)
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 13:29:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3llea6a6n.fsf@merlin.cs.tamu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jeoej7x73u.fsf@sykes.suse.de>

Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> writes:

| "Dave Korn" <dk@artimi.com> writes:
| 
| >> -----Original Message-----
| >> From: gcc-owner On Behalf Of Gabriel Dos Reis
| >> Sent: 13 October 2004 04:47
| >
| >> Phil Edwards writes:
| >> 
| >> [...]
| >> 
| >> | particular place.  Since member init-lists aren't available 
| >> for STRING_CST,
| >> | we have to cast away the const in build_string
| >> 
| >> which is undefined behaviour by C rules  (and C++ too).
| >
| >   I'll bet alias analysis just loves it too.  Wouldn't using tricks like
| > this lead to a situation in the future (if and) when there's full IPA in gcc
| > and it can't bootstrap itself reliably any more?
| 
| In C you are always allowed to cast away const and write through the
| resulting lvalue as long as the underlying object is not read-only.

That is not true.  
If you can a strcture with const-qualified field, you can modify any
part, except that field.  (I'm talking of C here).

-- Gaby

  reply	other threads:[~2004-10-13 13:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-11  9:53 Ranjit Mathew
2004-10-12 10:06 ` Ranjit Mathew
2004-10-12 13:17   ` Gabriel Dos Reis
2004-10-12 21:15   ` Geoffrey Keating
2004-10-12 23:00     ` Gabriel Dos Reis
2004-10-12 23:23       ` Zack Weinberg
2004-10-13  2:53         ` Phil Edwards
2004-10-13  6:24           ` Gabriel Dos Reis
2004-10-13 10:57             ` Andreas Schwab
2004-10-13 13:16               ` Gabriel Dos Reis
2004-10-13 13:56                 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-10-13 14:22                   ` Gabriel Dos Reis
2004-10-13 15:06                     ` Andreas Schwab
2004-10-13 15:22                       ` Gabriel Dos Reis
2004-10-13 15:33                         ` Andreas Schwab
2004-10-13 18:20                           ` Gabriel Dos Reis
2004-10-13 19:09                             ` Andreas Schwab
2004-10-13 11:47             ` Dave Korn
2004-10-13 12:24               ` Andreas Schwab
2004-10-13 13:29                 ` Gabriel Dos Reis [this message]
2004-10-13 14:10                   ` Andreas Schwab
2004-10-13 14:30                     ` Dave Korn
2004-10-13 14:50                       ` Dave Korn
2004-10-13 18:25                         ` Andreas Schwab
2004-10-13 15:04                       ` Joseph S. Myers
2004-10-13 17:01                         ` Dave Korn
2004-10-13 21:16                           ` Geoffrey Keating
2004-10-14 13:26                             ` Dave Korn
2004-10-14 13:32                               ` Gabriel Dos Reis
2004-10-14 18:40                                 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-10-14 18:48                                   ` Gabriel Dos Reis
2004-10-14 20:33                                 ` Geoffrey Keating
2004-10-14 20:19                               ` Geoffrey Keating
2004-10-15 12:03                               ` Kai Henningsen
2004-10-13 14:53                     ` Gabriel Dos Reis
2004-10-13 15:46                     ` Gabriel Dos Reis
2004-10-13 19:41                 ` Matt Austern
2004-10-13 20:29                   ` Andreas Schwab
2004-10-13 20:41                     ` Matt Austern
2004-10-13 20:58             ` Phil Edwards
2004-10-13  9:23           ` Ranjit Mathew
2004-10-13 13:09             ` Ranjit Mathew
2004-10-13 19:13               ` Richard Henderson
2004-10-13 21:55                 ` Gabriel Dos Reis
2004-10-13 13:29             ` Gabriel Dos Reis
2004-10-13  5:49         ` Gabriel Dos Reis
2004-10-13  9:19           ` Zack Weinberg
2004-10-13 13:45             ` Gabriel Dos Reis
2004-10-13 20:39           ` Geoffrey Keating
2004-10-13 21:45             ` Gabriel Dos Reis
2004-10-13 22:15               ` Geoffrey Keating
2004-10-13 22:24                 ` Gabriel Dos Reis
2004-10-13 22:53                   ` Joseph S. Myers
2004-10-13 23:19                   ` Geoffrey Keating
2004-10-14  0:21                     ` Gabriel Dos Reis
2004-10-14  6:04                       ` Andreas Schwab
2004-10-14  7:10                         ` Gabriel Dos Reis
2004-10-14 11:29                           ` Andreas Schwab
2004-10-14 13:06                             ` Gabriel Dos Reis
2004-10-14 18:37                               ` Andreas Schwab
2004-10-15 12:48                                 ` Kai Henningsen
2004-10-13  3:47 Steven L. Zook
2004-10-13  7:26 ` Gabriel Dos Reis

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