Re: Silent GCC4.0 warning

["Jörn Engel" <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>]

On Wed, 14 September 2005 14:34:47 +0200, Marius Groeger wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, Jörn Engel wrote:
> 
> >"if your write it portable in the first place" sounds nice, but noone
> >really knows what that means, before the acid test happens.
> 
> I think this is a weak argument in this context. Sticking to the 
> standards should always be a prime directive for any programmer. 
> Moreover, /if/ I follow your argument: it's very unlikely something 
> happens to the semantics of (char*)buf + i, compared to the likelihood 
> of a future GCC discovering honour and making the extensions harder to 
> access.

Yeah, ok.  But then again, void* arithmetic is likely the single best
gcc extension.  We should spread this feature into more compilers and
into the next C standard instead of crippling ourselves.

Commercial companies with paying customers may have a different view
on this subject.  But since I don't receive a monthly cheque to worry
about such problems, please understand my ignorance. ;)

Jörn

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