From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20052 invoked by alias); 23 Feb 2004 04:43:38 -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 20045 invoked from network); 23 Feb 2004 04:43:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.codesourcery.com) (65.74.133.6) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 23 Feb 2004 04:43:37 -0000 Received: (qmail 18985 invoked from network); 23 Feb 2004 04:43:37 -0000 Received: from 227.148-60-66-fuji-dsl.static.surewest.net (HELO codesourcery.com) (mitchell@66.60.148.227) by mail.codesourcery.com with SMTP; 23 Feb 2004 04:43:37 -0000 Message-ID: <403984F6.8020600@codesourcery.com> Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 07:08:00 -0000 From: Mark Mitchell Organization: CodeSourcery, LLC User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Giovanni Bajo CC: gcc@gcc.gnu.org, Nathan Sidwell Subject: Re: Deprecate -fpack-struct for C++? References: <2b0801c3f75c$7e77acd0$aa422597@bagio> In-Reply-To: <2b0801c3f75c$7e77acd0$aa422597@bagio> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2004-02/txt/msg01224.txt.bz2 > - Deprecate -fpack-struct for C++. I'd like to deprecate it in 3.4 and remove > it from mainline. I guess it's not so widespread for C++ given the above issues > anyway. And we are not losing any semantic power since we still have attribute > packed anyway. I would support deprecating -fpack-struct in C++. (And in C for that matter! It's much better to use attributes and/or #pragma pack.) -- Mark Mitchell CodeSourcery, LLC mark@codesourcery.com