[IRCServices Coding] GCC3

[Finny Merrill]

On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, Andrew Church wrote:

>      The major problem I have with GCC 3.0 is that it reorders structures
> (or at least did at one point), which would break convert-db, and in
> general is a Bad Idea (among other things it prevents you from laying
> structures on top of data in memory).  Does anyone know if this has been
> fixed or if there's a way around it?

Are you sure it reordered them? It might just have changed the padding 
between members, which compilers have been known to do in the past. 
Anyhow, I haven't tried convert-db yet but I will when I get the chance
> 
> >IIRC the warning about "ngi might be used uninitialised" is not merely a 
> >GCC 3.0 error since I have been seeing it for a while. 
> >
> >It occurs because of the way the code initialises ngi within an if 
> >condition where another condition that must be true is also involved. 
> >
> >Personally, I would fix such a warning since it would be a legitimate 
> >operation for the compiler to generate code that could skip the 
> >initialisation of ngi. 
> 
>      ngi is never used if it isn't initialized (read the code).  I've
> never seen this warning, incidentally; have you changed the default
> compiler options?
> 
>   --Andrew Church
>     achurch at achurch.org
>     http://achurch.org/
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