On 21 Jul 2000, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> > It all boils down to whether you consider bounds checking to be a
> > "really weird" feature.
>
> It's definitely not, and I had intended to make this clear in my
> reply. But proponents of weird features may point at
> bounded-pointers, which *they* might consider weird, and use it to
> convince us to accept their weird feature. Of course, we may be able
> to decline their proposals with other arguments, but they may feel
> we're not being fair.
This argument does not hold water. The decision (if significant)
should be made based on the usefulness the capability provides to its
users vs the cost of including the capability.
If support for bounded pointers is added to Autoconf, certainly
support should also be added to support compiler profiling options,
which are also not weird or unusual capabilities. I had to explicitly
add support for this to my package's configure script.
Bob
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