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Re: Update: status of high-priority GNATS bugs


>>>>> Joe Buck writes:

Joe> Sigh, so much for my theory ... in my brief gdb debug session the
Joe> infinite loop looked the same.

	I think they *are* similar.  I am trying to poke at the problem,
but parsers and G++'s parser are not my expertise.  It may simply be that
Mark was too conservative in his patch for the other PR, like limiting it
to blev==0 (brace level).

	Many of the open problems are C++-specific, but we unfortunately
have a limited group of C++ developers who can efficiently debug and fix
the problems.  G++ is developed and maintained with care and competence,
but C++ is complex and G++ is delicate (especially the current parser
which Mark is rewriting).

	We need to get the bugs fixed, but I also think that we should be
proud of the small number of bugs overall and the small number of bugs in
a C++ implementation which has become extremely more conformant to the
specs.

David


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