[ILUG] gcc optimisation weirdness?

[Kenn Humborg]

> > Ken Frightened us with..
> > > GCC also has some extensions that allow
> > > you to do fancied stuff with initializers.
> 
> I knew that info was the spawn of satan, look at the evils that live in 
> there. Get out of that compiler extension section before you confuse the 
> hell out of me as to whats standard C and whats not.

Ahh, but I never actually found it until I got hold of the 
postscript output from the GCC info sources and made me a
dead tree edition.  Mind you, I really did it for the stuff
on porting to different architectures, but it was Christmas,
I was in Roscommon, I was bored...  So I read the whole thing.

There are a _lot_ of things that GCC will let you do that
are non-standard.  The Linux kernel depends on a whole bunch
of them, in fact.

And the day I confuse Caolan will be a day of much rejoicing
and celebration :-)

Later,
Kenn