GCC 3.3 release criteria

Michel LESPINASSE walken@zoy.org
Tue Feb 25 22:58:00 GMT 2003


On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 02:23:48PM -0800, Matt Austern wrote:
> 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.

The gcc compilers previous to 3.2 used to almost always follow that hint.
People are just starting to transition to 3.2 and are already complaining.

Cheers,

-- 
Michel "Walken" LESPINASSE
Is this the best that god can do ? Then I'm not impressed.



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