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Re: egcs-1.1 and the C++ standard
Jason Merrill <jason@cygnus.com> writes:
> >>>>> Joe Buck <jbuck@synopsys.com> writes:
>
> > For egcs 1.1, the compiler itself will have all of the major features in
> > at least some form: the two major missing areas in 1.0.3 (namespaces,
> > templates with template arguments) now have an implementation. If anyone
> > can think of a significant piece of compiler (not library) functionality
> > that still isn't present, please let me know.
>
> Here are a few that come to mind:
>
> 'export'
> Proper handling of class-level using decls
> Non-trivial covariant returns
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Could you expand on this one? Does this mean that the Standard somehow
supports overloading based on return types now?
Thanks,
-Andi