Re: Ugly warnings under 64 bit compilation
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Re: Ugly warnings under 64 bit compilation

From: Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at>
Date: Mon Mar 13 2006 - 12:55:01 CET



Donal K. Fellows <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk> wrote:


> Andreas Leitgeb wrote:


>> What's left is code that might have extracted the numerical


>> value from TCL_VOLATILE, and this is broken anyway.


> 


> Umm, no. All object code that uses that symbol and which was compiled


> against an older version of Tcl and linked with the stubs mechanism


> (i.e. lots of code) will be "broken" by your definition



I don't fully understand the situation here,


but I agree that if this would require recompilation


of even just one single line of sane code, then it's


not worth that.  


My "proposal" was based on the believe that no


recompilation would be necessary at all.


Received on Sun Apr 30 02:30:26 2006