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Re: template-depth

To: Jason Merrill <jason at redhat dot com>
Subject: Re: template-depth
From: Phil Edwards <pedwards at disaster dot jaj dot com>
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 00:11:41 -0500
Cc: Mike Stump <mrs at windriver dot com>, gdr at codesourcery dot com, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
References: <200012282317.PAA17996@kankakee.wrs.com> <20001228184919.A14729@disaster.jaj.com> <u9r92scd1o.fsf@casey.cambridge.redhat.com>

On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 09:14:14AM +0000, Jason Merrill wrote:
> 
> The limit is necessary to trap infinite recursion.  However, we can
> certainly define infinity to be larger than 14; that's just the number
> required by the standard.  I don't feel strongly about the new limit; 50
> seems a nice round number.

Setting infinity to equal 50 sounds good to me.  If a user really needs
a bigger infinity (with apologies to Cantor :-), -ftemplate-depth-NN is
not an unreasonable requirement, IMHO.


Phil

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References:
- Re: template-depth
  - From: Mike Stump
- Re: template-depth
  - From: Phil Edwards
- Re: template-depth
  - From: Jason Merrill

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