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Re: RFC: named address space support
Hi Mark
> I agree. Much to my dismay, the C and C++ committees don't seem to be
> willing to work together to make sure that C remains a subset of C++.
I'm afraid my patch doesn't address that. :-)
> Ben, to answer your original question, I don't think that lack of nested
> address spaces is a fatal flaw, as long as the implementation otherwise
> meets the spec, and as long as the implementation doesn't somehow make
> it harder to add that.
Good, I was hoping that would be the general opinion.
> However, I'd like to know how final this proposal is, and how likely
> it is to make the WG14 WP.
I don't really know the answer to that. I will try and find out.
Perhaps Chao-ying Fu (cc'ed) who implemented the fixed point arithmetic
portion of the proposal knows more?
> As always, I'm concerned about putting things into GCC and
> then finding out that we have to change them in ways that are
> not backwards compatible.
Absolutely understood!
Cheers, Ben