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Re: -std's (was Re: v3 link failures analyzed)


Mike Stump <mrs@windriver.com> writes:

| > To: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@cam.ac.uk>
| > Cc: Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr@codesourcery.com>, <libstdc++@gcc.gnu.org>,
| >         <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>
| > From: Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr@codesourcery.com>
| > Date: 10 Jan 2001 20:00:25 +0100
| 
| > "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@cam.ac.uk> writes:
| 
| > | On 10 Jan 2001, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
| > | 
| > | > Thanks.  Now I understand the motivation.  But I still think that
| > | > there should be an alias for the most recent standard in effect
| > | > (and understood by the compiler).
| > | 
| > | Under what circumstances would such an option be useful?
| 
| > When you just want to compile a program with the most recent
| > standard without having to keep that of xxx:yyyy.  We shouldn't get
| > more pendatic than necessary.  It is a practical matter.
| 
| What is wrong with having -std be that option?

Nothing.  

But why would '-iso' be more difficult to accept than '-std' ?

-- Gaby
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