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Re: RFC: named address space support
Hi Mark
> I'm not terribly familiar with this proposal.
> Ben, to answer your original question, I don't think that lack of nested
> address spaces is a fatal flaw, as long as the implementation otherwise
> meets the spec, and as long as the implementation doesn't somehow make
> it harder to add that. However, I'd like to know how final this
> proposal is, and how likely it is to make the WG14 WP.
According to:
http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=30822
.. the embedded C proposal as of 2008-01-18 is at stage 90.92. This
suggests that it's very close to being incorporated into the standard.
Have I understood that correctly?
> As always, I'm concerned about putting things into GCC and then
> finding out that we have to change them in ways that are not backwards
> compatible. And, I'd like to know what our C maintainers make of the
> proposal overall; if they see language issues, then we might want to
> resolve those with WG14.
Sure. Any comments from Joseph or Richard?
Cheers, Ben