On Nov 12, 2007, Mark Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Clearly, for some users, incorrect debugging information on optimized > code is not a terribly big deal. It's certainly less important to many > users than that the program get the right answer. On the other hand, > there are no doubt users where, whether for debugging, certification, or > whatever, it's vitally important that the debugging information meet > some standard of accuracy.
How is this different from a port of the compiler for a CPU that few people care about? That many users couldn't care less whether the compiler output on that port works at all doesn't make it any less of a correctness issue. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ FSF Latin America Board Member http://www.fsfla.org/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED], gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist [EMAIL PROTECTED], gnu.org}
