On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 4:01 PM, Paul Robinson < [email protected]> wrote:
> In http://reviews.llvm.org/D9208#169446, @thakis wrote: > > > Does gcc intend to fix this soon? Isn't being compatible with gcc > important > > than the other things? > > > If gcc emitted an incorrect relocation, would you argue that it's > important to be compatible with gcc? Even if you could not point to any > linker that handled that buggy relocation in a reasonable way? > 'course not, but that's not the case here. If a program (say, ninja) tries to be compatible with gnu make's depfile parsing, it would previously convert "\ " to a space from what I understand. Now it's going to get "\\\ " and think that that's "\ ". So this is breaking backwards compat of clang with itself.
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