>>>>> "Eric" == Eric Botcazou <ebotca...@adacore.com> writes:
Tom> I don't understand what the code being external, or the review, has to Tom> do with anything. This code is compiled with the same host compiler as Tom> everything else. Eric> But, precisely, this line of reasoning is barely defensible in my Eric> opinion. If you really want to go that route, then let's stop Eric> doing comprehensive reviews and stop requesting changes to Eric> submitted patches in order to make them comply with the Eric> agreed-upon practices, that would save time for everyone. I never suggested anything like this. I suppose you are arguing ad absurdum here, but I don't think that this conclusion follows from the antecedents. I'm merely supporting Pedro's discovery that a rule, previously thought to have been important, was found by accident not to matter. Tom> HOST_WIDE_INT is also not very persuasive to me. We did many things in Tom> the past that became obsolete as compilers matured. Eric> Why would HOST_WIDE_INT be obsolete? That's a nice way to Eric> abstract the host and reverting to hardcoded types like 'long Eric> long' doesn't seem a progress to me. Yes, ok. I like typedefs too. I misunderstood what you were saying here. Tom
