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Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 09:27:07 +0100 (CET)
From: Urban Widmark <urban@svenskatest.se>
To: Peter Samuelson <peter@cadcamlab.org>
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Subject: Re: beware of dead string constants
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On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Peter Samuelson wrote:

[someone wrote, and I am keeping it :) ]
> > > >   void foo (void)
> > > >   {
> > > >     if (0)
> > > >       printk(KERN_INFO "bar");
> > > >   }
> > > > 

[snip]

> Jakub Jelinek claims to have fixed this particular bug in the last week
> or so, although I have not downloaded and compiled recent CVS to verify
> this.  (Didn't someone at some point have a cgi frontend to
> CVS-snapshot 'gcc -S'?  I can't find it now.)

It is linked from the "Reporting bugs" page on the gcc site.
http://www.codesourcery.com/gcc-compile.shtml

And as far as I can tell the assembly output of compiling "foo" does not
contain the "bar" string (without using any -O at all ...)

GCC: (GNU) 2.97 20001121 (experimental)

/Urban

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