------- Comment #8 from pcarlini at suse dot de 2008-01-05 10:23 -------
(In reply to comment #6)
> Agreed. We should remove the offending patch set from 4.2. It's been too
> troublesome and we can't do this kind of compile-behavior change on a minor
> update to a stable release series.
Agreed.
> Oh well.
>
> Probably what needs to happen on mainline is
>
> -fexceptions and __EXCEPTIONS
>
> should be used to model something like
>
> -frtti and __RTTI
>
> Then macro solutions are possible in the library.
>
> Or, we could change mainline cc1plus to silently convert dynamic_cast to
> static_cast when -fno-rtti. I would actually prefer this solution.
Yes, I would also like the latter solution, a lot. But whereas I could
reasonably quickly implement myself the latter, I'm not at all sure about the
former and I'm not even sure the C++ front-end maintainers agree with the idea
itself :( I'm adding Mark and Jason in CC, to have feedback, also about the
good point you are raising in the next message.
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pcarlini at suse dot de changed:
What |Removed |Added
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CC| |jason at redhat dot com,
| |mark at codesourcery dot com
http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=34680
