Re: GIT on MinGW problem

From: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@xs4all.nl>
Date: May 27, 2007, 17:04 UTC
Message-ID: <4659BA07.4080307@xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0705271149450.4648@racer.site>

Johannes Schindelin escreveu:

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>>       ((Tcl_Obj **) objv) += (async + 3);
> 
> Ah yes, I was using MinGW's own GCC, which is GCC 3.something.
> 
> It is a new "feature" of GCC 4.x to disallow constructs like these. 
> (Probably because GCC people think that other people are not intelligent 
> enough to understand such constructs, and therefore prohibit their use.)

I very much doubt that. GCC uses type information to determine whether pointers might be aliased. I think disallowing such constructs helps with compiler optimization.

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