Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932302AbVLEDJk (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Dec 2005 22:09:40 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932303AbVLEDJj (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Dec 2005 22:09:39 -0500 Received: from agminet01.oracle.com ([141.146.126.228]:63278 "EHLO agminet01.oracle.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932302AbVLEDJj (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Dec 2005 22:09:39 -0500 Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2005 19:09:36 -0800 From: Joel Becker To: Linux-Kernel mailing list Subject: Re: RFC: Starting a stable kernel series off the 2.6 kernel Message-ID: <20051205030936.GH15164@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> Mail-Followup-To: Linux-Kernel mailing list References: <43923DD9.8020301@wolfmountaingroup.com> <20051204121209.GC15577@merlin.emma.line.org> <1133699555.5188.29.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20051204132813.GA4769@merlin.emma.line.org> <1133703338.5188.38.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20051204142551.GB4769@merlin.emma.line.org> <1133707855.5188.41.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20051204150804.GA17846@merlin.emma.line.org> <20051204161709.GC17846@merlin.emma.line.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051204161709.GC17846@merlin.emma.line.org> X-Burt-Line: Trees are cool. X-Red-Smith: Ninety feet between bases is perhaps as close as man has ever come to perfection. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1021 Lines: 34 On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 05:17:09PM +0100, Matthias Andree wrote: > There are things that old Sun Workshop versions bitch about that GCC > deals with without complaining, and I'm not talking about C99/C++-style > comments. C standard issue? I believe not. I have seen many a code like so: char buf[4]; memcpy(buf, source, 5); accepted by the Sun compilers and run just fine. When the application was ported to Linux/GCC, the developers complained their program segfaulted, and "it must be something broken on Linux!" Just because Sun's compiler does something doesn't mean it's right :-) Joel -- Life's Little Instruction Book #510 "Count your blessings." Joel Becker Principal Software Developer Oracle E-mail: joel.becker@oracle.com Phone: (650) 506-8127 - 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/