From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Mar 9 02:27:08 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id CAA08649 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 9 Mar 1996 02:27:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.rwth-aachen.de (mail.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.144.9]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id CAA08641 for ; Sat, 9 Mar 1996 02:27:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de) by mail.rwth-aachen.de (PMDF V5.0-4 #13110) id <01I24T1FX8B4000DXI@mail.rwth-aachen.de> for freebsd-hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org; Sat, 09 Mar 1996 11:30:01 +0100 Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id LAA01124 for freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com; Sat, 09 Mar 1996 11:33:12 +0100 Date: Sat, 09 Mar 1996 11:33:12 +0100 From: "Christoph P. Kukulies" Subject: bounds checking gcc To: freebsd-hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org Message-id: <199603091033.LAA01124@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Does anyone know about the bounds checking feature of gcc-2.7.2? I picked up a mail in a different mail list where someone writes the following: "I compiled libtiff under linux with Bounds Checking GCC v 2.7.2 - 1.02 (which has the very cool -fbounds-checking option) and the program I run keeps barfing at:" Wouldn't that a nice feature for further code cleanup? --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de