Re: [patch 02/15] const-expr.patch

On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 3:31 AM, Johannes Sixt [off-list ref] wrote:

Gary V. Vaughan schrieb:

quoted

Unfortunately, there are still plenty of production systems with
vendor compilers that choke unless all compound declarations can be
determined statically at compile time, for example hpux10.20 (I can
provide a comprehensive list of our supported platforms that exhibit
this problem if necessary).

Yes, a comprehensive list would be appreciated. This change is an
uglification that I personally would prefer to stay out of the code base
unless many consumers of git are hurt.

The problem with this non-feature is that it is all too easy that new code
introduces new incompatibilities.

This is probably a stupid question, but why not just build it using
gcc on systems with a broken vendor compiler?  You don't have to
distribute gcc just to distribute binaries built with it, so it seems
like there's no downside... and less suffering for the build
maintainer.

Have fun,

Avery