From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15201 invoked by alias); 3 Mar 2004 00:30:29 -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 15194 invoked from network); 3 Mar 2004 00:30:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (66.187.233.31) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 3 Mar 2004 00:30:28 -0000 Received: from int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (int-mx1.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.254]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i230UKb11455; Tue, 2 Mar 2004 19:30:20 -0500 Received: from pobox.corp.redhat.com (pobox.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.156]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i230UK830374; Tue, 2 Mar 2004 19:30:20 -0500 Received: from free.redhat.lsd.ic.unicamp.br (vpn50-35.rdu.redhat.com [172.16.50.35]) by pobox.corp.redhat.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i230UDJ5017189; Tue, 2 Mar 2004 19:30:17 -0500 Received: from free.redhat.lsd.ic.unicamp.br (free.redhat.lsd.ic.unicamp.br [127.0.0.1]) by free.redhat.lsd.ic.unicamp.br (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i230U5mC026132; Tue, 2 Mar 2004 21:30:05 -0300 Received: (from aoliva@localhost) by free.redhat.lsd.ic.unicamp.br (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id i230U303026129; Tue, 2 Mar 2004 21:30:03 -0300 To: Joe Buck Cc: Matt Austern , Kevin Atkinson , gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: RFC: New C++ Attribute: final References: <3335D13F-6C8C-11D8-A180-000A95BCF344@apple.com> <20040302151010.A10198@synopsys.com> From: Alexandre Oliva Organization: Red Hat Global Engineering Services Compiler Team Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 00:30:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <20040302151010.A10198@synopsys.com> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2004-03/txt/msg00189.txt.bz2 On Mar 2, 2004, Joe Buck wrote: > So we need to strike a balance. How about: experimental extensions must only be enabled if a certain flag is given in the command line? Like that of signatures, just to mention an example of an extension that didn't go forward. Then we still serve as a testbed, but we don't have backward-compatibility issues to worry about. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Happy GNU Year! oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist Professional serial bug killer