On Nov 12, 2007 6:18 PM, Andrew Lentvorski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Carl Lowenstein wrote:
> > I don't much like the attitude of the gcc developers. "We don't use
> > this ourselves, therefore nobody needs it."
>
> No, what *you* (and others) have asked for is to special case the
> removal of an unused string when optimizing.
>
> I agree with their decision about this.
>
> Especially since there exists an attribute (and probably a pragma) to
> handle this behavior.
Where does one learn that this attribute exists, except by searching
the archives of <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with some assistance from Google?
__attribute__((used))
> The gcc folks have become increasingly prickly about special casing
> behavior that they don't have to because it almost always leads to bugs.
Perhaps they have lost track of the principle of least surprise.
carl
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