On Sunday 19 July 2009, Rahul Sundaram wrote: >On 07/19/2009 11:31 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: >> On Sun, 19 Jul 2009 23:11:52 +0530 >> >> Rahul Sundaram wrote: >>> It is not so simple. This is not a compiler bug. I suggest you read >>> through http://lwn.net/Articles/341773/rss to understand why. >> >> I did. It is a compiler bug no matter what a bunch of language lawyer >> holier than thou compiler developers say :-). > >The kernel developers claim it is a kernel bug and the compiler >developers claim it is not their bug and this everybody agrees with and >yet you don't agree with all of them? Who is being holier than thou here? > >Kernel first dereferences a pointer, and after that checks whether it's >NULL. It is quite common as a compiler optimization to compile out code >like this. > >Rahul Ok, so what is the option to pass to the compiler to tell it not to do this? -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) The NRA is offering FREE Associate memberships to anyone who wants them. <https://www.nrahq.org/nrabonus/accept-membership.asp> Nothing endures but change. -- Heraclitus -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
