From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Robert Wilhelm <robert@physiol.med.tu-muenchen.de>
To: "Lassi A. Tuura" <Lassi.Tuura@cern.ch>
Cc: neal@ctd.comsat.com, egcs@cygnus.com, g++@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: 971127 array initialization problem!?!
Date: Mon, 01 Dec 1997 02:46:00 -0000
Message-id: <19971201112846.20776@haegar.physiol.med.tu-muenchen.de>
References: <E0xcB9E-00003z-00@neal.fred.net> <34826CB3.3E868177@cern.ch>
X-SW-Source: 1997-12/msg00009.html

On Mon, Dec 01, 1997 at 08:52:19AM +0100, Lassi A. Tuura wrote:
> neal@ctd.comsat.com wrote:
> >   QBitmap* y = new QBitmap[5](2,2);
> 
> This is not valid C++ syntax -- initialisers are not allowed in
> array-new expression.  Code like this used to compile with g++, but I
> don't know if it ever was officially supported GNU extension.  If the
> feature has been removed, the diagnostic could be improved...
>

Would the g++ maintainers accept patches to restore the old behavior?

I have quite a lot of code which depends on 
this unofficial behavior :-(