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Re: Peculiar functionality
- To: oliva at dcc dot unicamp dot br (Alexandre Oliva)
- Subject: Re: Peculiar functionality
- From: Joe Buck <jbuck at Synopsys dot COM>
- Date: Tue, 18 May 99 19:11:56 PDT
- Cc: lind0753 at umn dot edu, egcs at egcs dot cygnus dot com
> On May 18, 1999, "Stephen Lindholm" <lind0753@umn.edu> wrote:
>
> > 1) The new operators "or" "and" "not" (etc), described on Stroustrup C++PL
> > 3rd ed. p. 829 appear to not exist in egcs, or to be turned off by default.
>
> Indeed. Use -foperator-names or -ansi. I think it is not enabled by
> default for fear of breaking header-files that still use them. Maybe
> it's time to turn them on by default, now that we're moving to more
> strict ISO C++.
I don't think we should change it for 2.95; we can try flipping the
default afterwards, leaving the option as -fno-operator-names, in
snapshots and see how bad the damage is.