Re: 2.4.0-test8-pre1 is quite bad / how about integrating Rik's VM

[Richard Gooch]

Alexander Viro writes:
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> > > cat t.c
> > foo()
> > {
> >         if (0)
> >                 bar("hhhhhhh");
> > }
> > > gcc -O2 -c t.c
> > > strings t.o | grep hhh
> > hhhhhhh

Nasty, eh?

> Eww... Do they _ever_ remove dead code?

I guess not. Also, even if we get the compilers fixed, it will be some
time before we can deploy the kind of change you're proposing (which I
do agree looks a lot nicer: #ifdefs are ugly if for no other reason
that they lie outside the brace levels).

It will probably take about 5 years after a new version of GCC which
has this fix before we can trust it to produce correct code for the
kernel.

                                Regards,

                                        Richard....
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