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From: Florian Weimer <fw AT cygnus DOT stuttgart DOT netsurf DOT de>
Date: 19 Mar 1998 07:56:52 +0100
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Marc Lehmann <pcg AT goof DOT com> writes:

> On Wed, Mar 18, 1998 at 03:14:57PM +0100, Jan Gyselinck wrote:
> > > 
> > > I don't care for broken programs. If programs don't compile anymore, it's by
> > > 99.999% a bug in these programs. Better fix the programs rather than
> > > kludging your compiler.
> > Or not-documented behavior, maybe?  Programs are there to help the user,
> > isn't it? :p
> 
> well, linus says it isn't documented ;) actually, it is ambiguos. But that
> one problem (ioperm) is neither a documentation problem nor a compiler bug,
> and it was fixed long ago in 2.1.x

You have to be careful here. ;-) A quick fix suggested by Alan Cox
didn't work at all: gcc 2.8.0 optimized away a reference to a volatile
memory location, which is clearly a bug...

fw