[Patch] Remove fpos<>::operator== and !=
Joe Buck
Joe.Buck@synopsys.COM
Thu Mar 30 00:28:00 GMT 2006
On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 02:13:36AM +0200, Paolo Carlini wrote:
> Mark Mitchell wrote:
>
> >I'm sorry; I wasn't meaning to worry about the standard, but rather
> >about backwards compatibility for libstdc++ users. I'm not sure if
> >that's a concern in this respect, but I thought I would raise it just in
> >case.
> >
> >
> I see. Well, it's a matter of trade-off, after all. If people believe,
> everything considered, that code taking the address of the operator, or
> something similar, is more important than consistency in the syntax
> itself (see my description), I'm ready to revert the patch, but really
> I'd rather not.
I guess the question is whether we expect any actual code to be able
to tell the difference. The function you are proposing to eliminate
was inline, right? So even if some existing code used the function,
it will continue to work with the new library.
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