GCC 3.3 release criteria

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 02:33:14PM -0800, Michel LESPINASSE wrote:
> 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.

In addition, it's the documented behavior - check what our manual says
about inline sometime.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer