Hello All
Is the following scenario possible:
gcc-4.5 is being released at Christmas 2009 [*]. Since it is a
production compiler, it has been compiled without any checking (no
ENABLE_CHECKING, etc...)
a plugin foo.c is compiled as foo.so for that gcc-4.5, but since the
plugin is probably buggy, it is compiled with ENABLE_CHECKING.
This should probably work if ENABLE_CHECKING does not add extra fields
in data structure, but only runs checks without "side-effects" - other
than consume CPU resources (& memory)... In other words, if
ENABLE_CHECKING only enables gcc_assert and similar stuff (that is, only
add code but not "data" inside GCC, if you guess what I am thinking of).
If this is impossible (for instance because ENABLE_CHECKING modifies the
data structure inside GCC), we might consider documenting that.
Regards.
Note [*]: I don't pretend knowing when 4.5 will be released, and its
release date is not the subject of that discussion!
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