Standard conformance, the -std option and "GCC Bugzilla Bug 10152".

[Rodolfo Federico Gamarra]

Hi all,

I'd to ask about the -std option and it's specific meaning.

The bug referred (http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10152) points that

"This is not a bug.  GCC implements the resolution of DR 45"

However, currently in
http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/cwg_defects.html#45 it can
be seen that

45. Access to nested classes
Section: 11.8  [class.access.nest]     Status: CD1     Submitter:
Daveed Vandevoorde     Date: 29 Sep 1998

so the status is "commitee draft". As stated at the beginning of that
webpage: "ONLY RESOLUTIONS FOR ISSUES WITH TC1 STATUS ARE PART OF THE
INTERNATIONAL STANDARD FOR C++"

It seems that up to now DR 45 isn't part of the standard.

In http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.3.2/gcc/Standards.html#Standards
it's said that

"The original ISO C++ standard was published as the ISO standard
(ISO/IEC 14882:1998) and amended by a Technical Corrigenda published
in 2003 (ISO/IEC 14882:2003). These standards are referred to as C++98
and C++03, respectively. GCC implements the majority of C++98 (export
is a notable exception) and most of the changes in C++03. To select
this standard in GCC, use one of the options -ansi or -std=c++98; to
obtain all the diagnostics required by the standard, you should also
specify -pedantic (or -pedantic-errors if you want them to be errors
rather than warnings)"

Given that DR45 is not included in a Technical Corrigenda, isn't it
premature for GNU/g++ to implement its solution (at least when given
the option -std=c++98)?

Thanks a lot for your help and clarification of this issue.

--
Rodolfo Federico Gamarra