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From: "Aaron W. LaFramboise" <aaronavay62@aaronwl.com>
Cc: gcc mailing list <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: generalized lvalues
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 04:42:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <41A55897.4070804@aaronwl.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8AD5AEEF-3914-11D9-8BD2-000A95BCF344@apple.com>

As a user, while I know its a little too late to be concerned, this
concerns me in that some of the code I may be interested in compiling
with GCC may use this extension.  The maintainers of this code may be
unwilling to 'fix' it, and hearing that it breaks GCC may be reason for
them to leave it broken perpetually.

So, from a political perspective, this may not be a good thing, as some
proprietary software developers who are vaguely hostile towards GNU may
use this change in GCC as a way to further lock out non-proprietary
compilers.

I sympathize with the notion that extensions to the standard should be
approached conservatively and with much care.  But what about the case
where that extension is widely used and all comparable compilers support
it?  Are there any widely-used C compilers out that that _don't_
implement the pointer case of this extension?

Aaron W. LaFramboise

      parent reply	other threads:[~2004-11-25  3:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 116+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-11-18  3:50 Matt Austern
2004-11-18  3:52 ` Andrew Pinski
2004-11-18  4:01 ` Andrew Pinski
2004-11-18  4:18   ` Daniel Berlin
2004-11-18  4:21   ` Andrew Pinski
2004-11-18  4:27     ` Matt Austern
2004-11-18  7:15       ` Joe Buck
2004-11-18  7:37         ` Matt Austern
2004-11-18 13:17           ` Giovanni Bajo
2004-11-18 17:57           ` Joe Buck
2004-11-18 18:28         ` Mike Stump
2004-11-18 18:44           ` Joe Buck
2004-11-19  1:39             ` Mike Stump
2004-11-19  4:52               ` Matt Austern
2004-11-19 22:24                 ` Michael Matz
2004-11-19 22:30                   ` Robert McNulty Junior
2004-11-20  1:00                   ` Ziemowit Laski
2004-11-20  1:20                     ` Joe Buck
2004-11-20  1:51                       ` Ziemowit Laski
2004-11-20  5:04                         ` Joe Buck
2004-11-20  5:17                           ` Ziemowit Laski
2004-11-22 20:54                             ` generalized lvalues -- patch outline Ziemowit Laski
2004-11-22 21:01                               ` Andrew Pinski
2004-11-22 21:11                                 ` Ziemowit Laski
2004-11-22 21:39                                 ` Matt Austern
2004-11-22 22:11                                   ` Joe Buck
2004-11-22 22:12                                     ` Matt Austern
2004-11-23  0:06                                       ` Gabriel Dos Reis
2004-11-23  0:04                                   ` Gabriel Dos Reis
2004-11-23  0:27                                     ` Mike Stump
2004-11-24 20:40                                     ` Kai Henningsen
2004-11-23  0:11                                   ` Mark Mitchell
2004-11-23  1:19                                     ` Matt Austern
2004-11-23  1:26                                       ` Mark Mitchell
2004-11-23  1:32                                         ` Dale Johannesen
2004-11-23  1:42                                           ` Mark Mitchell
2004-11-23  1:45                                           ` Andrew Pinski
2004-11-23  1:55                                             ` Dale Johannesen
2004-11-23  1:56                                               ` Andrew Pinski
2004-11-23  2:12                                                 ` Dale Johannesen
2004-11-23  2:10                                               ` Marcus G. Daniels
2004-11-23  9:43                                       ` Eric Botcazou
2004-11-23 18:27                                       ` Aaron W. LaFramboise
2004-11-22 21:23                               ` Nathan Sidwell
2004-11-22 22:33                                 ` Ziemowit Laski
2004-11-23  0:09                                   ` Gabriel Dos Reis
2004-11-23  9:54                                   ` Nathan Sidwell
2004-11-23 13:35                                     ` Michael Matz
2004-11-23 14:56                                       ` Daniel Berlin
2004-11-23 15:02                                         ` Michael Matz
2004-11-23 15:15                                           ` Andrew Pinski
2004-11-23 15:47                                             ` Michael Matz
2004-11-23 15:56                                               ` Gabriel Dos Reis
2004-11-23 15:50                                             ` Steve Naroff
2004-11-23 15:51                                               ` Gabriel Dos Reis
2004-11-23 16:50                                             ` Eric Botcazou
2004-11-23 17:01                                               ` Paul Koning
2004-11-23 17:16                                                 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-11-23 18:03                                                 ` Thomas Kunert
2004-11-23 18:30                                                   ` Nathan Sidwell
2004-11-23 18:57                                                     ` Thomas Kunert
2004-11-23 21:21                                                   ` Paul Koning
2004-11-23 21:52                                                     ` Thomas Kunert
2004-11-23 15:51                                           ` Gabriel Dos Reis
2004-11-23 16:12                                             ` Michael Matz
2004-11-23 16:31                                               ` Richard Guenther
2004-11-23 16:44                                               ` Andreas Schwab
2004-11-23 20:16                                               ` Gabriel Dos Reis
2004-11-23 15:01                                       ` Nathan Sidwell
2004-11-23 15:09                                         ` Michael Matz
2004-11-23 19:11                                         ` Matt Austern
2004-11-23 21:10                                           ` Eric Botcazou
2004-11-23 21:34                                     ` Ziemowit Laski
2004-11-23 22:09                                       ` Joseph S. Myers
2004-11-23 22:23                                         ` Eric Botcazou
2004-11-23 22:27                                           ` Joseph S. Myers
2004-11-24  0:05                                             ` Eric Botcazou
2004-11-24  0:07                                               ` Steven Bosscher
2004-11-24  0:32                                               ` Joseph S. Myers
2004-11-25  8:41                                                 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2004-11-25 20:41                                                   ` Gabriel Dos Reis
2004-11-25 21:54                                                     ` Matt Austern
2004-11-25 23:27                                                       ` Gabriel Dos Reis
2004-11-29 18:06                                                       ` Joe Buck
2004-11-29 18:57                                                         ` Matt Austern
2004-11-23 23:27                                         ` Gabriel Dos Reis
2004-11-23 22:24                                       ` Nathan Sidwell
2004-11-23  0:07                                 ` Gabriel Dos Reis
2004-11-24 20:43                                   ` Kai Henningsen
2004-11-24 23:09                                     ` Gabriel Dos Reis
2004-11-24 23:17                                       ` Zack Weinberg
2004-11-22 21:31                               ` Richard Henderson
2004-11-23  0:11                                 ` Gabriel Dos Reis
2004-11-23  0:03                               ` Jonathan Lennox
2004-11-20  1:40                     ` generalized lvalues Joseph S. Myers
2004-11-18 19:11           ` Alex Rosenberg
2004-11-18  4:24   ` Matt Austern
2004-11-18  5:33 ` Dale Johannesen
2004-11-18 17:14 ` Fariborz Jahanian
2004-11-18 18:23   ` Joe Buck
2004-11-19  0:20     ` Ziemowit Laski
2004-11-19  0:40       ` Steven Bosscher
2004-11-19  1:20       ` Joe Buck
2004-11-19  2:00         ` Ziemowit Laski
2004-11-18 23:36 ` Ziemowit Laski
2004-11-18 23:37   ` Matt Austern
2004-11-18 23:49     ` Zack Weinberg
2004-11-19  1:38       ` Ziemowit Laski
2004-11-19  2:52         ` Zack Weinberg
2004-11-19  3:56           ` Ziemowit Laski
2004-11-19  4:22             ` Zack Weinberg
2004-11-19 13:10         ` Nathan Sidwell
2004-11-19 21:58           ` Ziemowit Laski
2004-11-18 23:44   ` Andrew Pinski
2004-11-18 23:45   ` Joe Buck
2004-11-25  4:42 ` Aaron W. LaFramboise [this message]

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