GCC 4.0 Status Report (2005-04-05)

[Mark Mitchell]

Andrew Pinski wrote:

> Yes it might be a silent miscompiling but there is an easy work around, 
> use a
> temporary variable

In a large sourcebase, even figuring out what's been miscompiled is very 
hard.  It's much easier to deal with a compiler that ICEs than one that 
silently miscompiles code.

> unlike pointer to member functions where there is no 
> work around, well except for not using templates but that is just wrong.

There are lots of work-arounds.  For example:

   int A::*p = &A::a;
   blah(p);

I didn't say the pointer-to-member problem shouldn't be fixed; I just 
said it wasn't as critical.

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