Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265144AbUAVXju (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Jan 2004 18:39:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266481AbUAVXju (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Jan 2004 18:39:50 -0500 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:27073 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265144AbUAVXjr (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Jan 2004 18:39:47 -0500 Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 15:39:44 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds To: Richard Henderson cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: 2.6.1-mm5 versus gcc 3.5 snapshot In-Reply-To: <20040122233016.GA21967@twiddle.net> Message-ID: References: <200401212236.i0LMaNuh020491@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <20040122060253.GA18719@twiddle.net> <20040122233016.GA21967@twiddle.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 927 Lines: 29 On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Richard Henderson wrote: > On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 07:27:52AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Shorthand or not, the "+m" usage is (a) totally logical > > Logical or not, "+" is not how reload works; this must be split to use "0". Why don't you split it to do "m" instead? > > Please fix the compiler. > > Maybe someday, but not I'm not rewriting reload today. Given there *is* > an alternative way to write this, it is definitely not a priority. The point being: - it's documented - it is used - you don't have to fix reload, just the splitting So why break it? Just do the alternative as the split, since you say it is equivalent anyway. Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/