[LLVMdev] Checked arithmetic

John Regehr regehr at cs.utah.edu
Thu Mar 27 08:51:13 PDT 2008


On Wed, 26 Mar 2008, Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:

> I guess my take is that when faced with an architectural question that
> you eventually may have to address in full, quick fixes tend to accrete
> that have to be undone when you get around to the general solution, and
> these make implementing the general thing harder -- unless you have
> thought it out in advance and the quick fixes are in line with the
> eventual solution.

Hey, you need to be careful with this reasoning or else you'll end up 
implementing a whole new language, compiler, and OS.

Oh wait nevermind :).

John



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