Re: errno bug and gcc internal error

[Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai <asmodai@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

-On [20050720 00:25], George Georgalis (george@xxxxxxxxx) wrote:
>Seems the gcc core should gracefully deal with this (warnings that
>code has been grokked), if there is no clean way to grok programs
>incorrectly declaring errno, the compiler should...

The compiler should do nothing of the sort!

The compiler should say:

Error: your C sucks and does not follow standards.

Don't "fix" the tools to solve the idiocy of the programmer.
The C standard is very clear on this.

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