ARM compiler misbehaves ?

Bill Gatliff bgat@billgatliff.com
Thu Apr 29 15:59:00 GMT 2004


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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