http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=39728
--- Comment #4 from Manuel López-Ibáñez <manu at gcc dot gnu.org> 2012-04-16 10:53:50 UTC --- (In reply to comment #3) > Every C++ programmer knows that the compiler implicitly defines special member > functions, including the copy-assignment operator but I don't really like the > terminology. C++ doesn't have methods, it has member functions, and the formal > term in the standard is "implicitly-defined" not synthesized. Indeed. I would consider obvious to do: sed -i 's/synthesized method/implicitly-defined member function/g' cp/*.c cp/*.h Would Jason pre-approve such a patch? It doesn't fix the actual verbose output Ian is complaining about, but it is a small positive step.