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Betrayed by a bitfield

Posted Feb 2, 2012 4:20 UTC (Thu) by arjan (subscriber, #36785)
Parent article: Betrayed by a bitfield

So we have a good small testcase...
sounds like we can run this and just ban compilers that miscompile this....

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Posted Feb 2, 2012 4:43 UTC (Thu) by nevets (subscriber, #11875) [Link]

I can just imaging the error message we post:

"We refuse to build your kernel with the current version of your compiler. Linus has declared that this version of gcc violates SOPA (Stop Obnoxious Programming Acts). Although the gcc developers feel that this bug is a feature, we have proof that they are wrong."

Betrayed by a bitfield

Posted Feb 2, 2012 9:55 UTC (Thu) by spaetz (subscriber, #32870) [Link]

Thanks for that comment, it was exactly what I needed to save my day. SOPA, LOL

Betrayed by a bitfield

Posted Feb 9, 2012 17:51 UTC (Thu) by jd (guest, #26381) [Link]

Can't we just give a "Compiler On Acid" error?