At 12:41 PM +0100 10/30/02, Leopold Toetsch wrote:
Nicholas Clark wrote:
Also, no-one commented on my suggestion a long time back to remove
-fno-strict-aliasing from gcc's flags. In theory we're stopping some possible
gcc optimisations with this.
I don't see a reason, why we would need -fno-st
On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Leopold Toetsch wrote:
> > Nicholas Clark suggested that we could perhaps use a union, something like
>
> Nice idea - works for me (gcc 2.95.2)
>
> Slightly modified - please try this (cc -Wall -Wcast-qual ..)
> static union {
> const void * __c_ptr;
> void * __
Andy Dougherty wrote:
On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Leopold Toetsch wrote:
[sundry 'const' warnings]
Nicholas Clark suggested that we could perhaps use a union, something like
Nice idea - works for me (gcc 2.95.2)
Slightly modified - please try this (cc -Wall -Wcast-qual ..)
static union {
cons
On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Leopold Toetsch wrote:
[sundry 'const' warnings]
> This warning WRT (void*) buffer was introduced for tcc, says the
> comment. Can we put a
> #ifdef __tcc__ / #endif around this - does tcc define something like this?
Short answer: Yes, but it wouldn't really make any signf
Peter Gibbs wrote:
Leopold Toetsch wrote:
- insert more const decls (e.g. string_trans_code doesn't modify its
src, so ...
At one stage all the source strings were defined as const; I believe
this changed with the introduction of COW strings. For example,
string_transcode may call string_co
Nicholas Clark wrote:
I'd prefer more real and explicit use of const, and correcting all const-ness
mistakes, rather than leaving it as a hint to the programmer. It's possible
that compilers will be able to optimise better if they know something is
const.
Ack.
Also, no-one commented on my
Leopold Toetsch wrote:
> - const is currently used in some string.c functions rather inconsistently
> - should we remove it alltogether
> - introduce a dummy CONST define as hint for the programmer
> - insert more const decls (e.g. string_trans_code doesn't modify its
> src, so ...
At one stage al
On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 11:13:09AM +0100, Leopold Toetsch wrote:
> I moved the two - almost identical - op bodys out of core.ops
> and called this functions string_str_index...
>
> and did introduce a new warning WRT const.
>
> - const is currently used in some string.c functions rather in
