From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7239 invoked by alias); 15 Jul 2006 10:42:37 -0000 Received: (qmail 7201 invoked by uid 48); 15 Jul 2006 10:42:30 -0000 Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2006 10:42:00 -0000 Message-ID: <20060715104230.7200.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: "tbm at cyrius dot com" 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/msg01103.txt.bz2 List-Id: ------- Comment #12 from tbm at cyrius dot com 2006-07-15 10:42 ------- (In reply to comment #10) > Why? It is better to reject invalid code even than keeping backwards > compatiblity. No, it's not - not in a minor point release. Users expect that a minor point release is backwards compatible. Upgrading from 4.1.1 to 4.1.2 should be painless, i.e. fix bugs only. But now we suddenly have 13 package build failures in Debian. -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=27227