GCC 4.0 Status Report (2005-04-05)

[Andrew Pinski]

On Apr 4, 2005, at 11:48 PM, Mark Mitchell wrote:

> Andrew Pinski wrote:
>> On Apr 4, 2005, at 7:26 PM, Mark Mitchell wrote:
>>> 20734 rejects valid pointer to member
>>>
>>>   Not yet assigned.
>> How is this less Critical?
>> This would breaks lots of code, it is template related too as it is 
>> not
>> rejected when not in templates.
>
> Clearly this is a judgement call.
>
> However, I think it's less critical because pointers-to-members and, 
> in particular, pointers-to-members in templates are relatively less 
> common.  And, it's rejects-valid, so at least you know that you have a 
> problem.  And there are workarounds.  In contrast, the top bug on the 
> list is known to cause silent miscompilation of Qt, a very major 
> package, and it's not easy to know where the problem is.

Yes it might be a silent miscompiling but there is an easy work around, 
use a
temporary variable, unlike pointer to member functions where there is 
no work around,
well except for not using templates but that is just wrong.

Thanks,
Andrew Pinski