From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15462 invoked by alias); 18 Nov 2004 18:10:08 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 15429 invoked from network); 18 Nov 2004 18:09:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO kiruna.synopsys.com) (198.182.44.80) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 18 Nov 2004 18:09:58 -0000 Received: from mother.synopsys.com (mother.synopsys.com [146.225.100.171]) by kiruna.synopsys.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EDAAF381; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 10:09:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from piper.synopsys.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mother.synopsys.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA14246; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 10:09:55 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jbuck@localhost) by piper.synopsys.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id iAII9Xh05294; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 10:09:33 -0800 X-Authentication-Warning: piper.synopsys.com: jbuck set sender to Joe.Buck@synopsys.com using -f Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 18:23:00 -0000 From: Joe Buck To: Fariborz Jahanian Cc: Matt Austern , gcc mailing list Subject: Re: generalized lvalues Message-ID: <20041118100933.A4942@synopsys.com> References: <8AD5AEEF-3914-11D9-8BD2-000A95BCF344@apple.com> <880AA6A7-397D-11D9-A788-000A95BA54A6@apple.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <880AA6A7-397D-11D9-A788-000A95BA54A6@apple.com>; from fjahanian@apple.com on Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 08:18:50AM -0800 X-SW-Source: 2004-11/txt/msg00629.txt.bz2 On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 08:18:50AM -0800, Fariborz Jahanian wrote: > What was the rational to have this extension in the first place. Maybe > we sould dig this out before > declaring that it was a 'bad idea'. It's a C extension that is wrong for C++. It interacts very badly with overloading. There is no overloading in C.