Language Changes in Bug-fix Releases?

[Mike Stump]

On Thursday, September 8, 2005, at 09:46  AM, Janis Johnson wrote:
> In the hopes that it will help the discussion I ran regression hunts on
> the two test cases.  The first test:
>
>   struct foo {
>     friend class bar;
>     void screw (bar&);
>   };
>
> is rejected starting with this 4.0 patch:
>
>   http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-cvs/2005-05/msg01007.html

Yeah, we already hit that one, we had to remove it from our tree.  :-(  
Another fine example of the type of thing we just don't want at times 
in a x.y.n release when n != 0.  I appreciate it adds a new feature 
that no existing code uses, but, that doesn't come for free.