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Date:      Mon, 10 Sep 2001 10:58:26 -0400
From:      "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
Cc:        Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern subr_prf.c src/sys/sys systm.h 
Message-ID:  <200109101458.f8AEwQI98441@green.bikeshed.org>
In-Reply-To: Message from Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>  of "Mon, 10 Sep 2001 10:30:09 BST." <200109100930.f8A9UBE97152@grimreaper.grondar.za> 

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Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> wrote:
> >   This hack brought to you by some questionable ``optimizations'' in gcc-3.
> >   gcc-3 takes it apon itself to convert:
> >     printf("string\n")  ->  puts("string");
> >   and:
> >     printf("a");  ->  putchar('a')
> >   etc.  I dont know what they've been smoking over there in gcc-land, but
> >   it must be pretty good stuff.
> 
> This "optimzation" on the part of GCC is extremely rude, IMVHO. Is there
> a way (#define ?) of permanently disabling it?
> 
> C is not FORTRAN - there are no intrinsic functions in C. Grrrrr.....

Agreed.  Peter's original comment was absolutely justified.  The _ONLY_ case 
I can see this possibly being even moderately alright is if it is somehow 
done in a way that makes it act like a macro definition and can be 
#undefined or (called)() in one of the standard ways.

-- 
 Brian Fundakowski Feldman           \  FreeBSD: The Power to Serve!  /
 green@FreeBSD.org                    `------------------------------'



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