On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 04:21:03PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Mon, 12 Jan 2009, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > > so at least least for this case it works. Your case also doesn't work > > for me. So it looks like gcc didn't like something you did in your test > > program. > > I very intentionally used _different_ types. > > If you use the same type, gcc will apparenrly happily say "hey, I can > combine two variables of the same type with different liveness into the > same variable".
Confirmed. > But that's not the interesting case. Weird. I wonder where this strange restriction comes from. It indeed makes this much less useful than it could be :/ -Andi -- a...@linux.intel.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
