From: lecoat@atari.org   
      
   Hi,   
      
   Michael Schwingen writes:   
   > Francois LE COAT wrote:   
   >> You'll agree that it's very peculiar ... How bizarre a warning will   
   >> generate an error when building C program's sources ? This is not   
   >> a warning, but should be alerted as an error, don't you think so ?   
   >   
   > No. The C standard gives compiler writers considerable room in which way   
   > certain details may be implemented. If your source code uses constructs with   
   > undefined results, the results will be - well, undefined, and may change   
   > with compiler versions.   
   >   
   >> Please take into account that I practice C language since 1986,   
   >> first Kernighan and Ritchie, then ANSI C standard. Notice the   
   >> C standard must have evoluted because my C sources are now obsolete.   
   >   
   > It has - K&R left many things undefined which were better specified in ANSI   
   > C, however, even K&R had language details which caused undefined behaviour   
   > by definition, and which may now cause unexpected results due to improving   
   > compiler optimizations that uncover faults that were always there.   
   >   
   > As a start, have a look at   
   > http://blog.regehr.org/archives/213   
   > http://blog.llvm.org/2011/05/what-every-c-programmer-should-know.html   
      
   Well, the same recipe should at least give the same meal. If somebody   
   cooks a pizza, he is not supposed to eat a tomato ketchup. Except if   
   he is an extremely bad cooker. The recipes are the C language sources,   
   and the cooker is the C language compiler.   
      
   What should I think about GNU/GCC 4 compared to GNU/GCC 2 and 3,   
   PURE C 1.1 and other compilers, building my C program Eureka 2.12,   
   when the produced binary is such a messy meal ?   
      
   Thanks for your answer.   
      
   Best regards,   
      
   --    
   François LE COAT   
   Author of Eureka 2.12 (2D Graph Describer, 3D Modeller)   
   http://eureka.atari.org/   
      
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