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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: Invalid compilation without -fno-strict-aliasing
Date: 27 Feb 2003 15:55:43 -0800
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Followup to:  <Pine.LNX.4.44.0302271234530.9696-100000@home.transmeta.com>
By author:    Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> 
> On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > 
> > We could work around both of these: disable the sign compare warning,
> > and use check_gcc to set a high number for -finline-limit...
> 
> Oh, both are work-aroundable, no question about it. The same way it was 
> possible to work around the broken aliasing with previous releases. I'm 
> just hoping that especially the inline thing can be resolved sanely, 
> otherwise we'll end up having to use something ugly like
> 
> 	-D'inline=inline __attribute__((force_inline))'
> 
> on every single command line..
> 

Isn't this what compiler.h is for?  If the complaint is that some
things don't include compiler.h then we may want to force it with
-include.  Better all the cruft in one file IMO.

	-hpa
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