Re: Conformance testing and gcc 3.0

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

On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 05:28:02PM -0500, Craig Rodrigues wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 01:08:13AM -0500, Craig Rodrigues wrote:
> > 
> > In the April 2001 issue of C/C++ Users Journal, there is
> > an article on testing compiler conformance to the ISO C++ standard:
> 
> I just bought the issue of C/C++ Users Journal, and read
> the article.  In the article, there were statements from
> most of the compiler and library vendors represented 
> in the article (Borland, Comeau Computing,
> Dinkumware, HP, IBM, Intel, KAI, Metrowerks, Microsoft, RogueWave,
> STLport).
> I did not see any statements made by the GCC Steering Committee,
> even though GCC 2.95.2 was evaluated in this article.
> 
> Was this an oversight on behalf of the author of the article?
> 
> I think the GCC Steering Committee does a lot of hard work to
> release a quality compiler, and I believe they should have
> been mentioned in the article, especially their view on the
> direction that gcc 3.0 will take in strengthening standards conformance.

The author /asked/ to be contacted.  Apparently nobody did.

    http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2000-07/msg00535.html


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