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Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> codesearch.google.com finds about 6000 uses of "extern line" in
> code written in C, but the search
>
Info node (gcc)Warning Options mentions that gcc warns about
int save_y;
if (change_y) save_y = y, y = new_y;
...
if (change_y) y = save_y;
However that's not always true, so it looks like gcc does have
the smarts to drop the warning. Could that be
It would be nice to have optimizer hints useful for critical sections -
sections that should be optimized at the expense of code surrounding it.
pthread_mutex_lock(&m);
critical section;
pthread_mutex_unlock(&m);
Things like spilling registers, .p2align, jumps that the com
Thread "What's the deal with C99?" in comp.lang.c discusses the C99
standard, and people are among other things speculating about why gcc
was never represented in the committee. I'd be interesting if you'd
reply there, e.g. to to message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> from
lawrence.jones in the C committee:
