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Re: Deprecate -fno-honor-std?
- To: mark at codesourcery dot com (Mark Mitchell)
- Subject: Re: Deprecate -fno-honor-std?
- From: Joe Buck <jbuck at synopsys dot COM>
- Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 09:44:51 -0700 (PDT)
- Cc: jbuck at synopsys dot com (Joe Buck), jason_merrill at redhat dot com (Jason Merrill), aoliva at redhat dot com (Alexandre Oliva), nathan at codesourcery dot com (Nathan Sidwell), gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org (gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org)
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> > Why do it this way instead of in the compiler? So that it will be
> > possible to build the old library with the new compiler, to make speed
> > comparisons possible (to find out, say, how much do we lose with the new
> > headers?
>
> That will not work. There are lots of other reasons the old library
> won't work with the new compiler, including that the compiler makes
> assumptions about typeinfo, etc., that are incompatible with the old
> library. They're relatively tightly coupled. Does that change your
> stance?
Ok, I guess it's not worth bothering with keeping it alive.