Re: PING: [patch] fix c++/33558 - references cannot be mutable

[Jonathan Wakely <jwakely dot gcc at gmail dot com>]

doh, re-attaching the patch would probably help ...

On 22 December 2010 14:53, Jonathan Wakely <jwakely.gcc@gmail.com> wrote:
> This is a very small patch to fix a standard conformance issue.
>
> I've made it a permerror so broken code can use -fpermissive and
> doesn't need to be fixed.
>
> I'd really like to get this in 4.6, so pinging for review
>
>
> On 18 December 2010 18:57, Jonathan Wakely wrote:
>> This is a slightly modified version of the patch attached to PR33558
>> which was posted to gcc-patches but apparently never reviewed. ?I
>> don't know if the author of the original patch, Giovanni, has a
>> copyright assignment but I think the change is obvious and I hope is
>> sufficiently small to not need an assignment. I was in the process of
>> making the same change when I found his patch on the PR and copied the
>> wording of his diagnostic and testcase.
>>
>> Sun CC and g++ both incorrectly accept mutable references, so it might
>> not be uncommon in the wild (I found a use in some production code
>> yesterday.) ?This version of the patch allows mutable on reference
>> members when -fpermissive is used, giving old code a transition path.
>> I'll add a note to changes.html if this is approved.
>>
>> tested x86_64-linux, OK for trunk?
>>
>>
>> cp/ChangeLog entry:
>>
>> 2010-12-18 ?Giovanni Funchal ?<gafunchal@gmail.com>
>> ? ? ? ? ? ?Jonathan Wakely ?<jwakely.gcc@gmail.com>
>>
>> ? ? ? ?PR c++/33558
>> ? ? ? ?* decl.c (grokdeclarator): Reject mutable reference members.
>>
>> testsuite/ChangeLog entry:
>>
>> 2010-12-18 ?Giovanni Funchal ?<gafunchal@gmail.com>
>> ? ? ? ? ? ?Jonathan Wakely ?<jwakely.gcc@gmail.com>
>>
>> ? ? ? ?PR c++/33558
>> ? ? ? ?* testsuite/g++.dg/other/pr33558.C: New.
>> ? ? ? ?* testsuite/g++.dg/other/pr33558-2.C: New.
>>
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