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Re: Language Changes in Bug-fix Releases?
Mike Stump <mrs@apple.com> writes:
| On Sep 2, 2005, at 2:30 PM, Richard B. Kreckel wrote:
| > This lead to developer irritation because people expect that what
| > compiled with GCC x.y.z should still compile with GCC x.y.z+1.
|
| I'll echo the generalized request that we try and avoid tightenings
| on other than x.y.0 releases.
I hear you. In this specific case, it worths remembering people that
the issue is not just an accept-invalid that was turned into
reject-invalid, but wrong-code generation (in the sense that
wrong-code was being genereted for *valid* program) that was fixed.
C++ appears to be part of that small class of languages where
an accept-invalid can hide a wrong-code....
-- Gaby