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October 3, 2007

Today Linus found a bug and then commented on how a particular version of gcc Ingo was using was creating some very broken assembly. Alan Cox reminded Linus how the code generated was not illegal per the posix specs but was indeed broken as stated. Later the conversation digressed a bit:

On Wed, 3 Oct 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> > When I'm ruler of the universe, it *will* be illegal. I'm
> > just getting a bit ahead of myself.
>
> Any time frame when that will happen?

I'm working on it, I'm working on it. I'm just as frustrated
as you are.  It turns out to be a non-trivial problem.

                        Linus

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