Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Aside: I have not yet found such a compiler, does anyone know of one > that breaks? In any case doing this for good measure seems fine, just > wondering if we're cargo-culting a needless workaround or not. Before I started Git, I had to deal with quite a many variations of UNIX, all of which looked alike but behaved slightly differently, and I do recall seeing this exact breakage, so it is a real solution to a real problem, and I can see OpenSSL folks had seen the same one. If you find my experience is not Enough, I have no further words for you on this topic. If the question is "name a compiler that breaks and is *still* in active use", then the answer would be fuzzy (it depends on the definition of "in active use"), but is useful to find out.
