971127 array initialization problem!?!

[Robert Wilhelm]

On Mon, Dec 01, 1997 at 08:52:19AM +0100, Lassi A. Tuura wrote:
> neal@ctd.comsat.com wrote:
> >   QBitmap* y = new QBitmap[5](2,2);
> 
> This is not valid C++ syntax -- initialisers are not allowed in
> array-new expression.  Code like this used to compile with g++, but I
> don't know if it ever was officially supported GNU extension.  If the
> feature has been removed, the diagnostic could be improved...
>

Would the g++ maintainers accept patches to restore the old behavior?

I have quite a lot of code which depends on 
this unofficial behavior :-(