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Re: GCC 3.3 release criteria
- From: Michel LESPINASSE <walken at zoy dot org>
- To: Matt Austern <austern at apple dot com>
- Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch at infradead dot org>,Michael Hayes <m dot hayes at elec dot canterbury dot ac dot nz>,tm_gccmail at mail dot kloo dot net, Lars Segerlund <lars dot segerlund at comsys dot se>,gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, Stuart Hastings <stuart at apple dot com>
- Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 14:33:14 -0800
- Subject: Re: GCC 3.3 release criteria
- References: <20030225220700.A11388@infradead.org> <CF5B9D22-490F-11D7-B226-000393B2ABA2@apple.com>
On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 02:23:48PM -0800, Matt Austern wrote:
> How can it be what existing code expects, when it's not what the
> existing compiler does? I agree with you that "silently changing
> semantics is not a very good idea", which is why we shouldn't
> change inline from a hint into a directive except in a special
> non-default compilation mode.
The gcc compilers previous to 3.2 used to almost always follow that hint.
People are just starting to transition to 3.2 and are already complaining.
Cheers,
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Michel "Walken" LESPINASSE
Is this the best that god can do ? Then I'm not impressed.