https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=51013
Ross Martin <ross.martin at ieee dot org> changed:
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--- Comment #14 from Ross Martin <ross.martin at ieee dot org> ---
This change to not be able to pull out a reference to the real or imaginary
parts has messed me up. The assumption being made by this new complex class is
that the real and imaginary parts are just a float or a double. That is false
in my code, and doesn't seem to be a good assumption for a general-purpose
complex implementation. My code has real and imaginary parts that are
themselves full classes. These classes can, at times, act like
double-precision numbers, so it makes sense to build complex numbers out of
them for arithmetic manipulations. However, I need direct access to the real
and imaginary parts to be able to access other parts of the class parameters,
and this new complex-class implementation explicitly forbids any direct access
to the real and imaginary parts in a type-safe way that doesn't rely on
knowledge of internal class data organization. Not a good change, IMHO.
