From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12900 invoked by alias); 25 Mar 2003 22:02:00 -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 12867 invoked from network); 25 Mar 2003 22:01:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO egil.codesourcery.com) (66.92.14.122) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 25 Mar 2003 22:01:59 -0000 Received: from zack by egil.codesourcery.com with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 18xwUU-0001in-00; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 14:01:54 -0800 To: Falk Hueffner Cc: Raja R Harinath , "Kaveh R. Ghazi" , mark@codesourcery.com, gcc@gcc.gnu.org, gdr@integrable-solutions.net Subject: Re: Converting to ISO C89 From: Zack Weinberg Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 22:17:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <87fzpb6s1u.fsf@student.uni-tuebingen.de> (Falk Hueffner's message of "25 Mar 2003 22:43:25 +0100") Message-ID: <87smtbgl65.fsf@egil.codesourcery.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.090017 (Oort Gnus v0.17) Emacs/21.2 (gnu/linux) References: <200303250642.h2P6gZ4r025932@doubledemon.codesourcery.com> <1048612019.25895.7.camel@doubledemon.codesourcery.com> <200303251752.MAA08671@caip.rutgers.edu> <873clbi0p6.fsf@egil.codesourcery.com> <87fzpb6s1u.fsf@student.uni-tuebingen.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2003-03/txt/msg01578.txt.bz2 Falk Hueffner writes: > Zack Weinberg writes: > >> Raja R Harinath writes: >> > Hopefully the ISO C89 changes also make the source C++-safe. >> >> It will not. There is extensive use of identifiers which are C++ >> keywords, such as 'class' and 'delete'. I do not think your >> suggestion is useful enough to warrant changing all of these >> identifiers. > > Couldn't that be easily worked around with -Dclass=__class or > something? Is this not a cure worse than the disease? zw