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Re: __opr as a parameter name
- To: egcs-patches at egcs dot cygnus dot com, libstdc++ at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: __opr as a parameter name
- From: Nathan Myers <ncm at best dot com>
- Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 20:33:54 -0700 (PDT)
- Reply-To: libstdc++ at sourceware dot cygnus dot com, egcs-patches at egcs dot cygnus dot com
Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com> writes:
| I'm not entirely sure whether c++ maintainers get to approve
| libstdc++ changes, or whether Ulrich remains in charge of those. In
| any case, your changes are fine with me.
|
| Although I hope to fix this bug before GCC 3.0 is out, we should
| probably also notify the libstdc++ people and the SGI STL people about
| this long-standing g++ bug. They might wish to choose different
| variable names.
The libstdc++ project is well-prepared to avoid special names
claimed by Egcs. We have a list of such names already, and
the SGI people have been using it as well. (The only one that
has come up repeatedly is "__sz".)
Nathan Myers
ncm@cantrip.org