bug#11935: XINT etc. should be functions

[Jan Djärv]

Hello.

9 jun 2013 kl. 16:25 skrev Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>:

> On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 11:18 AM, Jan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se> wrote:
> 
>> If you can make it detect when to use macros and when to use functions so
>> -O0 doesn't suffer, that is starting the ball rolling.  Otherwise it is 
>> setting up
>> a brick wall for users/developers with older gcc.
> 
> Also, in some environments updating to newer GCC isn't that easy.
> There's no MinGW GCC 4.8.1, and I wouldn't bet there will be one for
> many months.

Another thing to consider are other compilers.  Clang is becoming more common, 
and is available on all supported platforms (maybe not DOS).  How does it 
handle -g -O0?  AFAIK, it does not have -Og.

        Jan D.