Re: GIT on MinGW problem

[Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@xs4all.nl>]

Johannes Schindelin escreveu:

>>       ((Tcl_Obj **) objv) += (async + 3);
> 
> Ah yes, I was using MinGW's own GCC, which is GCC 3.something.
> 
> It is a new "feature" of GCC 4.x to disallow constructs like these. 
> (Probably because GCC people think that other people are not intelligent 
> enough to understand such constructs, and therefore prohibit their use.)

I very much doubt that. GCC uses type information to determine whether 
pointers might be aliased.  I think disallowing such constructs helps with
compiler optimization.

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