[RFC] C++1x breaking the ABI in one more place :(

[Mark Mitchell]

Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:

> The bad reputation G++ has cultivated does not come from situation
> remotely close to what the original patch was about.  G++ bad reputation
> comes extensions that were introduced without much thought about
> interactions, and that were removed later, etc.  The concrete
> situation at hand comes from a change in the C++ standard itself.
> We should not be conflating the two.  Otherwise, we lose credibility.

You're entitled to your opinion, of course.  But, my opinion is that if
we ship a library which breaks compatibility for existing code, we lose,
whether or not a change in the standard is the cause of that break.

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