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To: mike stump <mrs@windriver.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] C undefined behavior fix
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From: Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr@codesourcery.com>
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mike stump <mrs@windriver.com> writes:

| > From: Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr@codesourcery.com>
| > Date: 06 Jan 2002 14:22:45 +0100
| 
| > Isn't the incriminated construct already outside of C and non-portable?
| 
| That has been established and agreed upon.  What we are now into is
| pragmatics.  You now have to argue why we should not provide this
| feature in some form to users that ask for it.

Personnally, I don't have any sentiment against the assembler
solution.  Dewar said it was unnecessarily un-portable, but that the
construct by itself *is* already unportable. 

-- Gaby
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