Whatever happened to -fembedded-cxx?

[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message < 200003222345.AAA01391@loewis.home.cs.tu-berlin.de >you write:
   > I don't recall it ever being in egcs, so it must have been in Cygnus
  > gcc.
That is correct.

  > Well, I guess I can't say much more than has been said before, by
  > other people and on other forums. EC++ does not do what it claims to
  > do (in particular, the claim that it is a subset of standard C++),
  > compilers don't (necessarily) perform the optimizations they are
  > supposed to perform, and the selection of deleted features appears
  > arbitrary considering the target audiencs. In particular, I fail to
  > see why the removal of namespaces has any impact whatsoever on
  > performance of target code; pretty much the same holds for the removal
  > of templates.
This is the general reason why that code has never been contributed -- it's
never been clear that EC++ actually does what it is intended to do.

jeff