possible red flag for new C++ parser

[Wolfgang Bangerth]

>      It will be a threat to projects that don't care to bring their
>      sources into accordance with language standards, but that's not
>      something that we should be concerned about.
> 
> Why not?  What if such projects overlap with either or both the goals
> of the GNU project or the product lines of the vendors?

You forget that many of us are involved in more than the gcc project. Many 
came to gcc since they felt the need to improve it since they needed it 
for their own projects.

And as Joe already pointed out, there are the ones that fix other packages 
(Debian, RedHat, SuSE people). They'll make sure that the necessary 
patches are also propagated upwards.

> To be sure -- it's a purely hypothetical concern until the size of the
> problem actually measured.

Right -- hypthetical. I'd bet, many people would prefer it if rather than 
writing long mails, someone would actually try to use gcc3.4 on some of 
the packages being spoken about. Theory without practice is somewhat 
useless.

W.

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