generalized lvalues -- patch outline

[Dale Johannesen]

On Nov 22, 2004, at 5:36 PM, Andrew Pinski wrote:

>
> On Nov 22, 2004, at 8:28 PM, Dale Johannesen wrote:
>
>> Matt Austern wrote:
>>
>>> Partly depends on what the value of "..." actually is.  I'd be 
>>> interested in seeing whether other compilers (EDG? IBM? Sun? HP?) 
>>> support this extension.
>>
>> The construct occurs in the 176.gcc SPECmark, so I bet support is 
>> quite widespread, at least for C.
>
> I was in obstack.h which is not directly directly part of gcc.
> It is part of glibc.  The first copywrite on that file is for 1988
> which a year after the copywrite of gcc.c, 1987. Maybe it was
> originally of gcc but it is no longer.

Maybe so, but the file is included as part of the 176.gcc benchmark, 
and caused
compilation errors when gcc dropped support for this (mis)feature.