Re: egcs-1.1 and the C++ standard

[Andi Kleen <ak at muc dot de>]

Jason Merrill <jason@cygnus.com> writes:

> >>>>> Joe Buck <jbuck@synopsys.com> writes:
> 
> > For egcs 1.1, the compiler itself will have all of the major features in
> > at least some form: the two major missing areas in 1.0.3 (namespaces,
> > templates with template arguments) now have an implementation.  If anyone
> > can think of a significant piece of compiler (not library) functionality
> > that still isn't present, please let me know.
> 
> Here are a few that come to mind:
> 
> 'export'
> Proper handling of class-level using decls
> Non-trivial covariant returns
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Could you expand on this one? Does this mean that the Standard somehow
supports overloading based on return types now?


Thanks, 
-Andi