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Re: generalized lvalues -- patch outline
On Nov 22, 2004, at 4:09 PM, Mark Mitchell wrote:
Matt Austern wrote:
On Nov 22, 2004, at 12:45 PM, Andrew Pinski wrote:
If it's possible to make some limited subset of this work without
hurting C++ correctness, then I think we ought to do it. We don't
want to gratuitously break compatibility with other compilers.
I don't necessarily agree.
I understand why that's important to Apple, but I'm not sure it's a
mission priority for the FSF. We know that this kind of thing makes
for lots of bugs, and I'm sure that a mission priority is having
relatively few bugs.
I think that maybe the SC needs to give an opinion, not on this
extension, but on the overall goal of MSVC/CodeWarrior/...
compatibility.
Partly depends on what the value of "..." actually is. I'd be
interested in seeing whether other compilers (EDG? IBM? Sun? HP?)
support this extension.
--Matt