Re: DRs and TCs (was Re: Poor me... (was: Re: [PATCH, RFA] Reworked fix for PR4402))

[Phil Edwards <pedwards at disaster dot jaj dot com>]

On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 09:21:10AM +0100, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> Phil Edwards <pedwards@disaster.jaj.com> writes:
> 
> | Once we have something offical we can point to and say, "there, that's
> | the TC," then yeah, the appropriate guards should go.
> 
> Issues with status DRs are definitely now part of the language.  We should
> not wait 2050 before putting them in the library.

There's no problem with putting DR/Ready fixes into the library; the more
the merrier.  Right now -- and this is good practice -- they're surrounded
by _GLIBCPP_RESOLVE_LIB_DEFECTS, which defaults to on.  Mainly the guard
helps to remind us what the changes are for.


Phil

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