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Re: Language Changes in Bug-fix Releases?

From: Mike Stump <mrs at apple dot com>
To: Janis Johnson <janis187 at us dot ibm dot com>
Cc: Richard dot Kreckel at ginac dot de, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at integrable-solutions dot net>, Matthias Klose <doko at debian dot org>
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 10:09:11 -0700
Subject: Re: Language Changes in Bug-fix Releases?

On Thursday, September 8, 2005, at 09:46 AM, Janis Johnson wrote:

In the hopes that it will help the discussion I ran regression hunts on
the two test cases.  The first test:
  struct foo {
    friend class bar;
    void screw (bar&);
  };
is rejected starting with this 4.0 patch:

http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-cvs/2005-05/msg01007.html

Yeah, we already hit that one, we had to remove it from our tree. :-( Another fine example of the type of thing we just don't want at times in a x.y.n release when n != 0. I appreciate it adds a new feature that no existing code uses, but, that doesn't come for free.

References:
- Re: Language Changes in Bug-fix Releases?
  - From: Janis Johnson

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