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Re: Backporting to 4_0 the latest friend bits
- From: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Paolo Carlini <pcarlini at suse dot de>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 13:04:36 -0700
- Subject: Re: Backporting to 4_0 the latest friend bits
- References: <42728DC6.80001@suse.de>
Paolo Carlini wrote:
Hi Kriang and Mark,
[ friend PRs snipped ]
I know that, technically, we are not talking about regressions wrt 3.x, still, important packages that used to compile and, well, apparently at least, *work* well, now don't even compile (see c++/19403, c++/21235, many others linked from there). Would be a big deal having more of Kriang's recent work in 4_0 too, or is there something else that you can suggest?
Do we know that (a) the affected programs are valid, and (b) the patches
will make them compile again?
I understand the compiler did the wrong thing before, but it might be
that the programs were valid, the compiler did a wrong-but-harmless
thing, and now 4.0.0 does a wrong-but-harmful thing. If so, I think
it's reasonable to consider patches (if simple) that change the compiler
to do the right thing; going back to the wrong-but-harmless thing
doesn't seem so attractive.
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