On 28 January 2014 21:10, Richard Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > Compatibility with GCC is a means to an end -- we primarily aim to be > compatible with GCC in order to make it easy for people to move code > between GCC and Clang. Is there some particular code that relies on this? > Is there a good reason to think it's better to implement this feature in > Clang rather than fixing the code that relies on it? >
IIUC, this is in GCC because it was an old RVCT feature, and it was so probably because an ancient user needed for some obscure reason that was only valid on a very narrow embedded context. Maybe ARM folks can explain the rationale behind this on any modern codebase. cheers, --renato
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