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Re: Beyond GCC 3.0: Summing Up
- To: mark at codesourcery dot com (Mark Mitchell)
- Subject: Re: Beyond GCC 3.0: Summing Up
- From: Joe Buck <jbuck at synopsys dot COM>
- Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 13:43:57 -0700 (PDT)
- Cc: pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at (Gerald Pfeifer), aj at suse dot de (Andreas Jaeger), kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu (Richard Kenner), hjl at lucon dot org (hjl at lucon dot org), gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org (gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org)
> > Also, I would expect future releases of G++ to break less and less
> > existing code, now that there is an ISO C++ standard and G++ sticks
> > to it increasingly closely. For example, for some project of mine,
> > we didn't have to change a single line when migrating from GCC 2.95
> > to GCC 3.0.
>
> That is oustanding news.
I don't think that this is going to be a typical experience, though,
especially for those who have never used a C++ compiler other than g++.