From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26247 invoked by alias); 26 Oct 2004 01:03:36 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-patches-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-patches-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 26230 invoked from network); 26 Oct 2004 01:03:35 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO smtp.knology.net) (24.214.63.101) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 26 Oct 2004 01:03:35 -0000 Received: (qmail 2963 invoked by uid 0); 26 Oct 2004 01:03:57 -0000 Received: from user-24-96-113-172.knology.net (HELO ?192.168.0.8?) (24.96.113.172) by smtp1.knology.net with SMTP; 26 Oct 2004 01:03:57 -0000 Message-ID: <417DA274.9060805@coyotegulch.com> Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 01:20:00 -0000 From: Scott Robert Ladd User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (X11/20040919) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ziemowit Laski CC: gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org, "Joseph S. Myers" Subject: Re: New C parser [patch] References: <42A6DEB0-26D4-11D9-9558-000D9330C50E@apple.com> <8354E669-26DE-11D9-B761-000D9330C50E@apple.com> <417D8F67.5070105@coyotegulch.com> <5CE57982-26E1-11D9-B761-000D9330C50E@apple.com> In-Reply-To: <5CE57982-26E1-11D9-B761-000D9330C50E@apple.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.86.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2004-10/txt/msg02143.txt.bz2 Ziemowit Laski wrote: > So I take it there is no hope of the divergence being halted (let alone > reversed)? Or am I the only one who sees this divergence as an > aberration? :-) I haven't looked in on the debate for many months, but it boils down to the C++ people feeling that C99 was unnecessarily incompatible, and the C folk stating that they had no obligation to remain compatible with C++. Many of the differences are subtle, and some difficult to resolve in a common fashion. I highly recommend David Tribble's excellent synopsis of the differences at: http://david.tribble.com/text/cdiffs.htm -- Scott Robert Ladd site: http://www.coyotegulch.com blog: http://chaoticcoyote.blogspot.com