From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: GCC 3.4 Heads-up
Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2004 23:15:04 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3FF8E4C8.1070604@tmr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0401041824150.2162@home.osdl.org>
Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Sun, 4 Jan 2004, Bill Davidsen wrote:
>
>>You pointed out that this generates good code, I pointed out that it
>>also avoids future errors and is not just a trick for broken compilers.
>>I take your point about generating good code, I'm sorry you can't see
>>that avoiding code duplication is good practice even without the benefit
>>of better code.
>
>
> Don't be silly. Using non-standard C is _never_ good practice.
Your example, which I quoted, *is* standard C. And it avoids duplication
of code without extra variables, and is readable. We both agreed it was
standard, why have you canged your mind?
--
bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
CTO TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-05 4:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-26 1:46 GCC 3.4 Heads-up Chris Meadors
2003-12-26 3:46 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-12-26 4:34 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-26 6:04 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-12-26 6:58 ` Andy Isaacson
2003-12-26 7:07 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-12-26 7:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-29 16:13 ` David Lloyd
2004-01-02 21:57 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-01-03 21:11 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2004-01-04 5:48 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-01-04 20:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-05 1:28 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-01-05 1:38 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-01-05 23:49 ` Ingo Oeser
2004-01-05 2:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-05 4:15 ` Bill Davidsen [this message]
2004-01-05 4:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-30 1:37 ` Rusty Russell
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-12-26 11:02 linux
2003-12-26 20:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-27 16:39 ` Andreas Schwab
[not found] <16PqK-8eK-1@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <16RiU-2kO-1@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <16S5h-3no-5@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-01-06 21:06 ` David Mosberger-Tang
2004-01-06 22:33 ` Richard Henderson
2004-01-06 23:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-07 9:54 ` Richard Henderson
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