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Re: Patch for undefined behaviour in gcc


Neil Booth <NeilB@earthling.net> writes:

> Good point, I hadn't thought about the definedness changing.  I'll
> make it a -pedantic warning, and document the behaviour of defined in
> macros.  Do you find that acceptable?

As long as the warning is also never (even with -pedantic) given for
use of the feature in system headers, yes.  That's all I asked for.
Thanks.

> Glibc is just terribly incestuous in its assumptions about
> undocumented GCC internals.

You don't get it.  The warnings you add warn about non-ISO C behavior.
That's not what we are using, we use GNU C.  In this context the
warning is not adequate.

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