GNU bug report logs - #46988
28.0.50; Documenting and verifying assumptions about C code not calling quit or GCing

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Reported by: Pip Cet <pipcet <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2021 13:48:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: patch

Found in version 28.0.50

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Message #42 received at 46988 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Pip Cet <pipcet <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 46988 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, mattiase <at> acm.org, larsi <at> gnus.org,
 monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca
Subject: Re: bug#46988: 28.0.50; Documenting and verifying assumptions about C
 code not calling quit or GCing
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2022 19:08:55 +0300
> From: Pip Cet <pipcet <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2022 15:56:49 +0000
> Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>, 46988 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Mattias <mattiase <at> acm.org>, 
> 	Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
> 
> > In addition, AFAIU this uses some GCC-specific stuff without providing
> > for other compilers that don't support the same literal features.
> 
> I'm not sure to what extent clang emulates those same features, but
> it's certainly not standard C.

Clang at least attempts to be GCC-compliant.  But there are other C
compilers we want to support which don't do even that.




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