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Re: ARM compiler misbehaves ?

From: Bill Gatliff <bgat at billgatliff dot com>
To: Richard Earnshaw <Richard dot Earnshaw at arm dot com>
Cc: Grant Edwards <grante at visi dot com>,"Dickinson, Derek" <Derek dot Dickinson at icn dot siemens dot com>,Svein-Erik Skjelbred <ixdp425 at skjelbred dot com>,crossgcc at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 10:59:42 -0500
Subject: Re: ARM compiler misbehaves ?
References: <EA78B62757AF1E4799828249310AC4CA05D17AD8@stca206a.bus.sc.rolm.com> <20040429150341.GB18531@grante.dsl.visi.com> <1083252105.14083.156.camel@pc960.cambridge.arm.com> <20040429152927.GA18724@grante.dsl.visi.com> <1083252925.14083.165.camel@pc960.cambridge.arm.com> <20040429153918.GA18757@grante.dsl.visi.com> <1083254164.14083.187.camel@pc960.cambridge.arm.com>

Richard:

Richard Earnshaw wrote:

Boy.  The C standards people have sure worked hard to make it
as difficult as possible to deal with externally constrained
data layouts (e.g. network protocol frames).


They worked extremely hard to try and overcome C's type weakness so that
compilers could do a reasonable job of optimizing the result in the
common cases.

As opposed to, say, Java, where they just told us "no". :^)

b.g.

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