[coreboot] Incorrect casting in romcc.

ron minnich rminnich at gmail.com
Fri Sep 12 15:19:53 CEST 2008


On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 5:40 AM, Peter Stuge <peter at stuge.se> wrote:
> Mats Erik Andersson wrote:
>> after much backtracking I have identified an unexpected case
>> of (implicit) casting where romcc fails miserably.
>
> Great work!
>
>
>> In the light of all this, I mean to have found a bug in romcc,
>
> No doubt. Did your research so far allow you to also suggest a fix?
>

romcc is end of life and unmaintained for many years now.

I think it is a mistake to change something this fundamental unless
you can test it across platforms. There may be code out there that
depends on this bug ....

ron




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