GCC 3.3 release criteria

[Matt Austern]

On Tuesday, February 25, 2003, at 02:07  PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 01:00:17PM -0800, Matt Austern wrote:
>> not useful as often as a lot of people think it is.  If we
>> do make -fobey-inline available (which I think we should),
>> then I encourage everyone to compile their code with and
>> without it, and look at the effect on code size, before adding
>> it to their makefiles.
>
> It should be the default for gnu89 mode in the C frontend because
> that's what existing code expects.  Silently changing semantics is
> not a very good idea if it can be avoided.

How can it be what existing code expects, when it's not what the
existing compiler does?  I agree with you that "silently changing
semantics is not a very good idea", which is why we shouldn't
change inline from a hint into a directive except in a special
non-default compilation mode.

			--Matt