Re: [Gm2] CASE: gm2-4.1.2 of 2011-11-08 bug (or possibly philosophical difference)

[Gaius Mulley]

"Fischlin  Andreas" <address@hidden> writes:

> No, don't make things unnecessary complicated. I see little risk in
> leaving this simple by not checking.
>
> As Niklaus Wirth said many times: A standard is then agreed on, when
> it is no more of much interest. Similar things can be said about ISO
> for Modula-2. The compiler should merely make sure type consistency
> between the case selectors and the given type and compute memory
> allocation needs of the type according to the "worst case" case
> variant.

Hi Andreas,

sure this is very sensible - will just skip the check on values
for -fpim related options.

regards,
Gaius