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RE: Error compiling templates
- To: "Mark Mitchell" <mark at codesourcery dot com>
- Subject: RE: Error compiling templates
- From: "CPoblete" <poblete at lim dot com>
- Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 10:09:50 -0500
- Cc: <martin at mira dot isdn dot cs dot tu-berlin dot de>, <egcs-bugs at egcs dot cygnus dot com>
> Actually, there is a possibility here you do not have with a
> "commercial" compiler:
>
> o Right now, nobody wants to modify the official compiler is not
> going to be modified to accept your (invalid) code. Certainly,
> nobody is going to volunteer to do it.
>
> o None-the-less, the source is available. You, or someone you hire,
> can provide a custom version that does accept your code.
>
> o If that work is done well, and it is judged that compatibility
> with other compilers on this point is important, and the official
> maintainers deem it reasonable, that behavior might be enabled by
> a switch in some later major release of the official.
>
> Even if the third bullet never happens, you can do the second bullet,
> and have a compiler that does what *you* want it to do.
Thanks, Mark
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