------- Comment #3 from joern dot rennecke at st dot com 2006-06-26 11:19 ------- Subject: Re: floating point constant -> byte/char/short conversion is wrong for java
aph at gcc dot gnu dot org wrote: >------- Comment #2 from aph at gcc dot gnu dot org 2006-06-26 09:45 ------- >Thank you for this patch. > >It seems to be a patch for the core constant folding code. Would it not be >more >appropriate to do this in the Java front end's function convert() (in >java/typeck.c) ? > > The current implementation has been patched allegedly for the benefit of java, with the side effect of giving different results between -O0 and -O1 for some (unspecified or undefined) conversions for C/C++. Having user bugs masked by -O0 makes debugging harder, so this is a quality of implementation issue. The proposed patch would also address this issue. -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28144
