DR handling for C++

Gabriel Dos Reis gdr@cs.tamu.edu
Mon Sep 20 21:07:00 GMT 2004


Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com> writes:

| Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
| 
| >| Unfortunately, I don't have the messages from the original thread, so
| >| I'm off starting a new thread.
| > | | I certainly agree with Matt and Nathan that there's no point in
| >| supporting C++98 separately from C++03.  I also agree that new
| >
| >I don't understand this part.  Are you implying that there is no point
| >for -std=c++98 behaves differently than -std=c++03 (assuming the last
| >ever existed?)?
| >
| Yes, that is what I am saying.  I do not think it's worthwhile for GNU
| C++ to have a C++98 mode that is separate from a C++03 mode.  Much of
| what has changed in C++03 is clarifications to C++98; in those cases,
| it's not possible to know what C++98 should have done with the code,
| because the actual C++98 standard did not say.

If we do that, then we should probably align with the library too.
Otherwise it would become a very confusing situation.

-- Gaby



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