[Bug c++/14545] [3.4/3.5 Regression] Cannot compile pooma-gcc (regression)

[mark at codesourcery dot com]

------- Additional Comments From mark at codesourcery dot com  2004-03-18 15:48 -------
Subject: Re:  [3.4/3.5 Regression] Cannot compile pooma-gcc
 (regression)

giovannibajo at libero dot it wrote:

>------- Additional Comments From giovannibajo at libero dot it  2004-03-18 15:31 -------
>Subject: Re:  [3.4/3.5 Regression] Cannot compile pooma-gcc (regression)
>
>bangerth at dealii dot org wrote:
>
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>>This whole business with non-dependent initializers has run somehow
>>out of control given how late we are in the release cycle. We must
>>have had at least a dozen different reports about this problem. Has anyone
>>considered reverting the patch that introduced this instability? We
>>seem to be stomping out fires that keep popping up everywhere...
>>    
>>
>
>The patch just helps finding latent problems, really. It's not that the patch
>was not complete or instable, it just somehow helps uncovering problems with
>our detection of constant expressions. Plus, we're making big progress, because
>now it's always possible to use const locals as template arguments while before
>it was failing very often.
>  
>
Right.  The follow-on patches that we've been making have definitely 
been fixing bugs; we'd want them independently of the initializer patch.

>Anyway, this is the updated patch, and I'm running the regression test right
>now. OK for mainline and 3.4 if it passes?
>
Yes, this patch looks good.  Thanks!



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