elided copy constructors

[Timmy Mulligins]

>From: "Martin v. Loewis" <martin@mira.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de>
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>> My question is, "When should we expect the egcs compiler
>> to elide copy constructors as permitted by the standard?"
>
>Well, the short (and AFAIK the only correct) answer is: when somebody
>contributes the code.
>
>This is how open source works: If you need a feature badly enough, you
>have the chance to do it yourself. If you don't, it might get never
>done.
Sounds like the maintainers might be spending all of their time fixing 
errors and ways to do all the wacky things that people want. Results?
Broken compiler syndrome. Incompatabilities.
Almost safer to let Homer Simpson do it.
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