From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Gabriel Dos_Reis To: gcc AT gcc.gnu.org Cc: rms AT gnu.org Subject: Re: type based aliasing again Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 23:38:00 -0000 Message-id: References: <00d301bf003f$5f862630$545a9090@uito-nt-server.duma.gov.ru> <199909170626.CAA20026@psilocin.gnu.org> X-SW-Source: 1999-09/msg00751.html Richard Stallman writes: [...] | And the ones that do break, will most likely break a year or several | in the future instead of now. That delay will give more time for | today's current versions of various packages to be replaced with | corrected code. (The warning would encourage people to make new | versions which don't have these constructs in them.) And when those invalid programs will break, we'll find the same persons arguing that GCC used to support those porgrams and should continue to do the right thing it used to. Had we an opportunity to break invalid programs now, we should do so for the GCC users and GCC maintainers common interest. -- Gaby From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Gabriel Dos_Reis To: gcc@gcc.gnu.org Cc: rms@gnu.org Subject: Re: type based aliasing again Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 18:02:00 -0000 Message-ID: References: <00d301bf003f$5f862630$545a9090@uito-nt-server.duma.gov.ru> <199909170626.CAA20026@psilocin.gnu.org> X-SW-Source: 1999-09n/msg00751.html Message-ID: <19990930180200.NLsV763o1TTw-WWi6dIMzIxsoOQKMMQEORh9hqV-DtM@z> Richard Stallman writes: [...] | And the ones that do break, will most likely break a year or several | in the future instead of now. That delay will give more time for | today's current versions of various packages to be replaced with | corrected code. (The warning would encourage people to make new | versions which don't have these constructs in them.) And when those invalid programs will break, we'll find the same persons arguing that GCC used to support those porgrams and should continue to do the right thing it used to. Had we an opportunity to break invalid programs now, we should do so for the GCC users and GCC maintainers common interest. -- Gaby