[Ur] sanity checking
Adam Chlipala
adamc at impredicative.com
Mon Dec 13 08:34:48 EST 2010
Marc Weber wrote:
> It doesn't matter whether this is a gcc bug or not.
> It would be nice if we could trust the result even if gcc contained a
> bug. :-/ I've no clue how often this code resulting in bad behaviour is
> generated by urweb.
>
> That's one reason why a js target could be nice. because you don't have
> to know C extensions ..
>
To me, it just seems futile to try to build a compiler based on
intermediate C code, without being sure that the underlying C compiler
works correctly. The Ur/Web code you wrote was non-idiomatic, which led
to especially weird C code, so I'm not too worried about this issue for
the future.
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