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Re: GCC's statement expression extension
- To: mark at codesourcery dot com
- Subject: Re: GCC's statement expression extension
- From: "Kaveh R. Ghazi" <ghazi at caip dot rutgers dot edu>
- Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 15:14:36 -0400 (EDT)
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
> From: Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com>
>
> Folks --
>
> We've now degenerated (largely my fault!) into complete
> abstraction. Fun, but useless.
>
> We all agree that breaking compatibility (source or binary) is bad.
> I hope we all agree that *sometimes* it is the best path -- if it
> permits better optimizations, better stability, faster release cycles,
> etc. We have to take each of these things case by case; there's no
> other way.
Mark,
As I see it, you're only proposing removing stmt exprs from
G++. The blocking factor is glibc's use of them in headers to
optimize things like the string functions. I don't have access to my
linux box at the