Re: Request for comments on language extension: Safe arrays and pointers for C.

2012-09-01 Thread Joseph S. Myers
On Fri, 31 Aug 2012, John Nagle wrote: > On 8/31/2012 3:32 PM, Joseph S. Myers wrote: > > My comments are: > > > > * TL;DR. > >Then, perhaps, commenting is premature. The alternative would have been to ignore your message completely (having already concluded based on the initial comp.std.c

Re: Request for comments on language extension: Safe arrays and pointers for C.

2012-09-01 Thread James Dennett
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 2:55 PM, John Nagle wrote: >We have proposed an extension to C (primarily) and C++ (possibly) > to address buffer overflow prevention. Buffer overflows are still > a huge practical problem in C, and much important code is still > written in C. This is a new approach t

Re: [libstdc++] Mis-configure _GLIBCXX_LONG_DOUBLE_COMPAT?

2012-09-01 Thread Uros Bizjak
Hello! > I've seen this today both for alpha and s390 cross from x86_64: > > libtool: compile: /home/rth/work/gcc/bld-s390/./gcc/xgcc -shared-libgcc > > -B/home/rth/work/gcc/bld-s390/./gcc -nostdinc++ > > -L/home/rth/work/gcc/bld-s390/s390x-linux/libstdc++-v3/src > > -L/home/rth/work/gcc/bld-

Re: [libstdc++] Mis-configure _GLIBCXX_LONG_DOUBLE_COMPAT?

2012-09-01 Thread Andrew Pinski
On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 5:16 PM, Richard Henderson wrote: > I've seen this today both for alpha and s390 cross from x86_64: And powerpc64. Steven provided a patch: http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2012-09/msg00018.html . Thanks, Andrew Pinski > >> libtool: compile: /home/rth/work/gcc/bld-s3

gcc-4.7-20120901 is now available

2012-09-01 Thread gccadmin
Snapshot gcc-4.7-20120901 is now available on ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/snapshots/4.7-20120901/ and on various mirrors, see http://gcc.gnu.org/mirrors.html for details. This snapshot has been generated from the GCC 4.7 SVN branch with the following options: svn://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc/branches

Re: Request for comments on language extension: Safe arrays and pointers for C.

2012-09-01 Thread John Nagle
On 9/1/2012 9:59 AM, James Dennett wrote: > On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 2:55 PM, John Nagle > wrote: >> We have proposed an extension to C (primarily) and C++ (possibly) >> to address buffer overflow prevention. Buffer overflows are still >> a huge practical problem in C, and much important code i

Re: Request for comments on language extension: Safe arrays and pointers for C.

2012-09-01 Thread James Dennett
On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 8:35 PM, John Nagle wrote: > On 9/1/2012 9:59 AM, James Dennett wrote: >> On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 2:55 PM, John Nagle >> wrote: >>> We have proposed an extension to C (primarily) and C++ (possibly) >>> to address buffer overflow prevention. Buffer overflows are still >>> a