Re: netbsd-11 gcc bug

[Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost>]

> One of the many stupidities inflicted upon the C language by the
> compiler people who want to be able to use every trick they can to be
> able to generate faster code.

About all it means is that compilers that insist on doing that (ie,
lacking an option to turn off such over-aggressive inferences) are
broken, not suitable for use cases other than generating impressive
benchmark stats.  Compilers exist to be useful, after all, and this is
a significant impairment to its usefulness.

I'd say this should be filed as a bug with the gcc people; if they
can't/won't fix it, NetBSD should roll back to a previous gcc and/or
drop gcc as the system compiler, as then it'd be clearly unsuitable.

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