On 3/19/07, Karel Kulhavy <clock@twibright.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 09:26:56AM -0400, Nick ! wrote:
> > On 3/19/07, Karel Kulhavy <clock@twibright.com> wrote:
> > >On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 10:06:43PM +0100, Joachim Schipper wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Aggressive compiler optimizations are not generally a good idea. The
> > >> developers believe they are an unnecessary source of bugs, and since
> > >
> > >It's therefore not the responsibility of the programmer to check whether
> > >the
> > >result of optimization is correct. Therefore it's not the optimizations
> > >that
> > >are source of bugs, but bugs in GCC.
> >
> > But the practical fact is that GCC has these bugs and so optimizations
> > are an unnecessary source of bugs.
>
> But the proper way to handle these bugs is not work around them, but report
> them to the GCC developer so they can fix it. Otherwise we'll never get rid
> of them.

I agree, but in the meantime we have to make do.

-Nick