------- Comment #23 from malitzke at metronets dot com 2007-06-30 00:18 -------
Segher was mentioned twice. First, according to my research he is not a kernel
maintainer as implied in comments 4 and 9. He is actuallu Segher Boessenkool, a
GCC maintainer, inactive since 2005-02-01, his latest email address is
kernel.crashing.org; earlier it was de.ibm.com. I cannot quote him because he
has rather offensively forbidden me to do so. Maybe Mr Pinski can quote him.
Now to comment 19, What is violated are my rights as a programmer in
transforming a carefully circumscribed subtraction into a division. Just
repeating the C99 standard writers:
Trust the programmer.
Don't prevent the programmer from doing what needs to be done.
Keep the language small and simple.
Provide only one way to do an operation.
All I am asking is an effective way to impede the utterly inane and
counterproductive (also mentioned as cunning) subtraction to division
transformation. Just give me a flag or attribute that works without having use
-O0.
having to use -O0 would make gcc-4.3 utterly irrelevant to programmers and
negate:
We strive to provide regular, high quality releases, which we want to work well
on a variety of native and cross targets (including GNU/Linux); Anybody
recognize this?
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malitzke at metronets dot com changed:
What |Removed |Added
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CC| |segher at kernel dot
| |crashing dot org, schwab at
| |gcc dot gnu dot org
http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32494
