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Re: C++ PATCH: PR 11493 and PR 11495
- From: Wolfgang Bangerth <bangerth at ices dot utexas dot edu>
- To: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald at pfeifer dot com>, Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 09:56:55 -0500
- Subject: Re: C++ PATCH: PR 11493 and PR 11495
> (First, late me state that I really appreciate the huge number of fixes
> and improvements you've recently made!)
Indeed, I can only second that!
> I'm a bit afraid I may start sounding like Joseph, but for changes like
> this, which surely will break tons of C++ programs out there, we really
> need to provide more information for our users, for example by providing
> a clear explanation as part of the documentation for -fpermissive and as
> part of the release notes.
>
> Most importantly, this should include how to rewrite programs affected
> by this.
We already have this, see node "Name lookup" in trouble.texi. When I wrote
that section, I think we agreed that it should also go into the frequent-bug
section of the online pages, but we never got around to actually do that.
There might be an easy copy-and-paste way using texi2html, but I'm not aware
of what is the simplest thing to copy that section, do you?
Also, since we now have such an error message, it might be worth copying your
example along with the message into the manual so that people can grep the
manual for the error they see.
W.
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