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Re: [www-patch] bugs.html rewrite, part 1: factor out non-bugssection
- From: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald at pfeifer dot com>
- To: Wolfgang Bangerth <bangerth at ices dot utexas dot edu>
- Cc: Bugzilla Masters <bugzilla-masters at dberlin dot org>,Volker Reichelt <reichelt at igpm dot rwth-aachen dot de>,gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 20:06:35 +0200 (CEST)
- Subject: Re: [www-patch] bugs.html rewrite, part 1: factor out non-bugssection
- References: <list-4781488@dberlin.org> <200308141002.38004.bangerth@ices.utexas.edu>
On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, Wolfgang Bangerth wrote:
>> +<p>Up to and including GCC 3.0, the compiler will give "parse error" for
>> +seemingly simple code, such as</p>
> That's a lengthy section, and we don't get many PRs any more for these old
> compilers. I'm for dropping those parts of the section that really apply to
> anything pre-3.2.
OTOH, current mainline seems to have quite a couple of regressions in
that area, where the new parser now again gives error messages which
are hardly useful, so mentioning something might make sense.
> Usually, it's not the language standard that makes something illegal
Note that we use "invalid", not "illegal".
> About the upgrade 2.95->3.0 thing: replace it by 3.x instead, or by "3.0
> and later". The problems are the same in any case.
Funny, I think I also suggested that in prereviews of this patch. ;-)
> Thanks for the work
Indeed.
Gerald
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