On 27 Nov 2013 06:50, "Mouse" <mo...@rodents-montreal.org> wrote: > > > Let me get on the record. It's basically ridiculous to allow GCC 4.8 > > to redefine the set of permitted C expressions such that it breaks > > BSD. > > gcc 4.8 isn't. C99 did; what's distinctive about gcc 4.8 is that > before that gcc didn't take advantage of the leeway C99 said it had. > These macros have been out-of-spec since the day NetBSD decided it was > going to use C99 rather than some older version of C; it's just that > only now is that out-of-spec-ness actually biting anyone. (That > decision may have been implicit in a compiler version change.)
The decision to detect them and then optimise to broken code rather than a compile time error is what annoys me. Justin