[tree-ssa] Merge status
Gabriel Dos Reis
gdr@integrable-solutions.net
Wed Mar 17 15:50:00 GMT 2004
Ian Lance Taylor <ian@wasabisystems.com> writes:
| law@redhat.com writes:
|
| > I don't disagree. However, I suspect that GCC has become quite pervasive
| > and (sometimes unknowingly) people have started relying upon GCC extensions,
| > even in code which is supposed to be portable.
| >
| > Assuming that's the case, I would _expect_ that these developers will happily
| > fix their code when the problems are pointed out. Unfortunately, I don't
| > have good insight into the hundred+ projects that are affected to know if
| > the reports that have been sent their way are being acted upon.
|
| Yes, this is why I think it would be wise to have an unconditional
| warning for lvalue casts for two or three releases before actually
| removing the code. It gives people a reasonable chance to fix their
| code, while letting their users simply ignore the warnings.
If you prepare such patch against 3.3.4, I would accept it.
-- Gaby
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