On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 07:03:43PM +0000, Andrew Haley wrote: > It's an engineering problem. We have a widget that does the wrong > thing*. We have several ways to make it do the right thing, only one > of which has no adverse impact on the existing users of the widget.
> * (in some people's opinion) Agreed, but the compiler is not just for GNU/Linux or glibc, and a trap-catching fix won't work everywhere (e.g. ppc).