David, To summarize, your opinion seems to be to not enable the optimization by default, correct?
Thank you, -- Maxim Kuvyrkov CodeSourcery / Mentor Graphics On 29/09/2011, at 7:48 AM, David Miller wrote: > From: Maxim Kuvyrkov <ma...@codesourcery.com> > Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 07:45:17 +1300 > >> OK. Do you have an alternative suggestion that would fix non-portable use >> of locale_t? > > Don't optimize something that is invalidated by a quite common practice? > > What about people who encode invalid pointers with "0xdeadbeef", do we need > to audit every source tree that does this too? This invalidates the > optimization's preconditions as well. > > You're not going to eradicate all the code in the world which uses unaligned > constants to encode pointers to make them have special meanings in certain > situations. > > We use the "-1" thing in the Linux kernel too I believe. I'd go so far as > to say this kind of thing is pervasive. > >
