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From: Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou@libertysurf.fr>
To: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph@codesourcery.com>
Subject: Re: generalized lvalues -- patch outline
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> The removal of crufty code, improving the maintainability of the compiler,
> is sufficient justification for the removal of a dubious extension which
> does not add expressive power to the language.

It's not that dubious since most compilers seem to have it, at least in the 
pointer case.  And no, please, don't say it's because they tried to play 
catch-up with GCC, I would not believe you.

And, from the user's viewpoint, this kind of argument has no merit anyway.

-- 
Eric Botcazou