On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 2:20 PM, Andrew Deason <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Dec 2012 20:14:14 -0500 > Jason Edgecombe <[email protected]> wrote: > > > As I recall, the main objections to enabling it seems to be the > > quality of code. I'm curious. What would it take to fix the > > objections? > > From what I recall, the code relies heavily on aliasing that gcc warns > about (that is, casting pointers to different structures) and does some > strange things with pointer bits. While the warnings themselves don't > necessarily mean that the code is 'bad', getting rid of the warnings > properly would probably involve the desired improvements. > My personal worry would be related to the other recent thread asking about issues when using non-supergroups pts on a supergroups pts database; I would expect that there be some way to at least detect the incompatibility, and if not do something saneish then at least avoid causing corruption. -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates [email protected] [email protected] unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net
