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Re: static const double pi = 3.1415;

From: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>
To: Mike Stump <mrs at apple dot com>, "gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org" <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 23:19:46 -0800
Subject: Re: static const double pi = 3.1415;

--On Saturday, February 15, 2003 04:13:24 PM -0800 Mike Stump <mrs@apple.com> wrote:

Thoughts?  I have a patch to do this, if we like the general idea.

I don't believe this was ever a GNU language feature as such; it was never documented as an extension to my knowledge. It was just one of many, many places where we allowed more code to compile than we should have.

If people really feel that we need to add this back in, we can do that with -fpermissive -- but the only exception we should make is for floating-point types, not aggregates, etc. That latter case cannot really be made to work reliably without major work.

--
Mark Mitchell mark@codesourcery.com
CodeSourcery, LLC http://www.codesourcery.com

Follow-Ups:
- Re: static const double pi = 3.1415;
  - From: Gabriel Dos Reis
- Re: static const double pi = 3.1415;
  - From: Kai Henningsen

References:
- static const double pi = 3.1415;
  - From: Mike Stump

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