From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1948 invoked by alias); 23 Nov 2004 01:13:22 -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 1925 invoked from network); 23 Nov 2004 01:13:19 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail-out4.apple.com) (17.254.13.23) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 23 Nov 2004 01:13:19 -0000 Received: from mailgate2.apple.com (a17-128-100-204.apple.com [17.128.100.204]) by mail-out4.apple.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id iAN1K8w1009345 for ; Mon, 22 Nov 2004 17:20:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from relay4.apple.com (relay4.apple.com) by mailgate2.apple.com (Content Technologies SMTPRS 4.3.14) with ESMTP id for ; Mon, 22 Nov 2004 17:13:18 -0800 Received: from [17.112.104.84] ([17.112.104.84]) by relay4.apple.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id iAN1DEdZ008514; Mon, 22 Nov 2004 17:13:15 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <41A27FA4.2000107@codesourcery.com> References: <4D2CF60C-3919-11D9-8BD2-000A95BCF344@apple.com> <20041117212847.A26376@synopsys.com> <6F5FC748-7BBD-44B9-8DDC-246949F16102@apple.com> <20041118102741.A8347@synopsys.com> <77E8D36A-C0C2-4B03-964C-BEE0FE7BBBC3@apple.com> <98C86CD4-39E2-11D9-B2D5-000A95BCF344@apple.com> <20041119170011.A30410@synopsys.com> <9E6AD708-3A93-11D9-9070-000D9330C50E@apple.com> <20041119174042.A1311@synopsys.com> <90DC5074-3A96-11D9-9070-000D9330C50E@apple.com> <9CD04F70-3CC6-11D9-B847-000D9330C50E@apple.com> <7688EB08-3CC7-11D9-AEB4-000A95D692F4@physics.uc.edu> <41A27FA4.2000107@codesourcery.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Steve Naroff , gcc mailing list , Michael Matz , Ziemowit Laski , Joe Buck , Andrew Pinski , Mike Stump From: Matt Austern Subject: Re: generalized lvalues -- patch outline Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 01:19:00 -0000 To: Mark Mitchell X-SW-Source: 2004-11/txt/msg00778.txt.bz2 On Nov 22, 2004, at 4:09 PM, Mark Mitchell wrote: > Matt Austern wrote: >> On Nov 22, 2004, at 12:45 PM, Andrew Pinski wrote: > >> If it's possible to make some limited subset of this work without >> hurting C++ correctness, then I think we ought to do it. We don't >> want to gratuitously break compatibility with other compilers. > > I don't necessarily agree. > > I understand why that's important to Apple, but I'm not sure it's a > mission priority for the FSF. We know that this kind of thing makes > for lots of bugs, and I'm sure that a mission priority is having > relatively few bugs. > > I think that maybe the SC needs to give an opinion, not on this > extension, but on the overall goal of MSVC/CodeWarrior/... > compatibility. Partly depends on what the value of "..." actually is. I'd be interested in seeing whether other compilers (EDG? IBM? Sun? HP?) support this extension. --Matt