Re: is Vax addressing sane today

On Wed, 25 Sep 2024 12:54:18 -0400, EricP
<ThatWouldBeTelling@thevillage.com> wrote:

For me error detection of all kinds is useful. It just happens
to not be conveniently supported in C so no one tries it in C.
>
GCC's -trapv option is not useful for a variety of reasons.
1) its slow, about 50% performance hit
2) its always on for a compilation unit which is not what programmers need
   as it triggers for many false positives so people turn it off.

Things like that are why some companies have a code policy that allows
just one function per file.

Still a problem if you need <whatever the relevant flag does> only in
one or a few places.