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Re: C++ extension "cast-as-lvalues": time to deprecate?
On 09-May-2003, Joseph S. Myers <jsm28@cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Fri, 9 May 2003, Fergus Henderson wrote:
>
> > Are you suggesting just deprecating it just in C++, or also in C?
> >
> > I would prefer that it not be deprecated.
> > The reason is that this is a useful extension in C
>
> I would like it deprecated in C. There is an excessive amount of
> complicated code in the C front end to implement this extension, it
> creates lvalues whose address cannot be taken,
C already has lvalues whose address cannot be taken: registers.
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