From: "Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko" <phco...@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 17:08:34 +0200
> I can't agree with designating nested functions as root issue. Imagine > tomorrow we discover a bug in "for" loop compiling. This wouldn't be a > reason to replace all "for"s with "while"s. The root issue is compiler > bug and it should be fixed I can tell you that in kernel land when we encounter a compiler bug we usually have to simply cope with it somehow, and if that means rearranging some loop to not trigger a bug that is sometimes what it indeed does mean. Also, a small project using a pretty obscure feature of gcc was in a way asking for trouble :-) But if you want to decrease your testing base every time we hit some compiler bug you don't particularly like, well I guess that's your perogative then... _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
