On Tue, 25 Sep 2018, Andreas Schwab wrote: > On Sep 25 2018, Michael Schmitz <schmitz...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi Finn, > > > > > > On 25/09/18 11:49, Finn Thain wrote: > >> On Tue, 25 Sep 2018, Michael Schmitz wrote: > >> > >>> Hi Finn, > >>> > >>> has this been resolved in the meantime? > >>> > >> My compiler is too old (4.4.6) to be affected. Also, I didn't pursue a > >> patch because I don't really know how you fix this properly. > > > > Maybe Andreas or Geert have thought of something? > > The right fix is to use strcmp directly. >
But it's not always going to be strcmp that has this problem. Also, there is a lot of developers that you'll need to educate. I'm not sure that approach is feasible. At least, not without a new compiler warning to indicate that the compiler is going to attempt a risky optimization. -- > Andreas. > >
