From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29117 invoked by alias); 15 Jul 2006 10:28:04 -0000 Received: (qmail 28925 invoked by uid 48); 15 Jul 2006 10:27:57 -0000 Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2006 10:28:00 -0000 Message-ID: <20060715102757.28924.qmail@sourceware.org> X-Bugzilla-Reason: CC References: Subject: [Bug c++/27227] [4.0 Regression] rejects valid code with some extern "C" In-Reply-To: Reply-To: gcc-bugzilla@gcc.gnu.org To: gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org From: "pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org" Mailing-List: contact gcc-bugs-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-bugs-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2006-07/txt/msg01100.txt.bz2 List-Id: ------- Comment #10 from pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org 2006-07-15 10:27 ------- (In reply to comment #9) > So apparently this is invalid code. However, I feel very strongly that a point > release of GCC should *not* introduce a new error - Mark, please modify the > patch applied to the 4.1 branch in a way to allow this code. Why? It is better to reject invalid code even than keeping backwards compatiblity. -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=27227