Return value optimisation patch for g++ 2.95.3?

[Ravi Menon]

Thanks for the quick reply.  Yes, the plan is to eventually migrate
legacy code to use
newer compilers which will take a long time. Just wanted to avoid
return-by-reference based workarounds if by chance there was patch
available.

Ravi


On 5/24/06, Joe Buck <Joe.Buck@synopsys.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 03:36:47PM -0700, Ravi Menon wrote:
> > Apologise if this not the right forum to discuss this particular
> > issue. I am wondering
> > if there is a patch for return value optimisation (rvo) for g++ 2.95.3
> > version?
>
> 2.95.3 is a tiny patch to 2.95.2.  2.95.2, in turn, is almost eight years
> old and unmaintained, and the version of C++ it supports is so old and
> oddball as to be almost a different language.  I don't think you're going
> to find what you are looking for; it will be far less effort in the long
> run to port whatever code you need this for so that it's written in
> maintainable C++, not the weird language that 2.95.x accepted.
>