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Re: Candidate fix for PR c/7353

From: Phil Edwards <phil at jaj dot com>
To: Neil Booth <neil at daikokuya dot co dot uk>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>, Zack Weinberg <zack at codesourcery dot com>, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 21:33:43 -0400
Subject: Re: Candidate fix for PR c/7353
References: <20021007235225.GB20419@codesourcery.com> <20021008055931.GJ1008@redhat.com> <20021008061158.GA32072@daikokuya.co.uk>

On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 07:11:58AM +0100, Neil Booth wrote:
> Richard Henderson wrote:-
> 
> > > produces an ICE with all versions of GCC since 3.0.  This is an
> > > obscure, rarely-used extension, but if we're going to have it, it
> > > should work.
> > 
> > I'm for nuking it myself.
> 
> I concur.  It's really ugly.

That's putting it lightly.  Anybody writing "typedef X = 0;" needs to
be beaten about the head with a broken bottle (for punishment) and then
forced to read K&P's "The Practice of Programming" (for proper re-education).


Phil

-- 
I would therefore like to posit that computing's central challenge, viz. "How
not to make a mess of it," has /not/ been met.
                                                 - Edsger Dijkstra, 1930-2002

References:
- Candidate fix for PR c/7353
  - From: Zack Weinberg
- Re: Candidate fix for PR c/7353
  - From: Richard Henderson
- Re: Candidate fix for PR c/7353
  - From: Neil Booth

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