Problems with PR 21210

[Nathan (Jasper) Myers]

On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 03:20:29PM -0700, Mark Mitchell wrote:
> I'm not sure what other areas of concern arise, with respect to this PR, 
> which is just about the core language.
> 
> There are indeed other questions, though, like:
> 
> 1. Overload resolution
> 
>   void f(std::complex<double>);
>   void f(__complex__ double);
> 
> 2. Should we have overloads of "sin" (and so forth) for "__complex__" 
>    types?

The Intent of the Committee was that compilers would open-code complex 
and val_array objects if there was anything to be gained by it.   
That is, std::complex<> and __complex__ ought to one and the same 
type.   I hope the C committee has not given them such different 
semantics that it's impossible.

Nathan Myers
ncm@codesourcery.com