rms@AI.MIT.EDU (02/28/90)
There seems to be an argument under way in info-gcc about what kinds of variable allocation strategies are legitimate for a C compiler to use. Please stop this argument. It does not help me decide what to implement. It is also not very useful for the other readers; even assuming they want to know the answer to this question, the low signal-to-noise ratio in such an argument makes it a bad way of informing them. In the future, if you see something which GCC does which might perhaps be suboptimal, please report it to bug-gcc@prep.ai.mit.edu. That is where all suggestions should be sent--not to info-gcc or (aka gnu.gcc). I appreciate suggestions, but I would prefer if they were sent in a fashion that did not impose on all the users. If someone else makes a suggestion, please don't send your opinion of the suggestion to either of the mailing lists. Please leave it to me to decide whether I would like to use the suggestion.