On May 30, 2012, at 9:15 AM, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: >> On the other hand, it is such an obscure feature that it is rather unlikely >> that it has any users. The usual C++ conformance fixes and libstdc++ header >> reorganizations cause much more pain, and no depreciation is required for >> them. >> >> Perhaps we can get away here without depreciation, too? > > That is a good point. Jason, what do you think?
My take, -fpermissive is when 100s of projects make extensive use of the feature and you don't want to kill them all. :-) For really obscure corners, better to just fix bugs and refine semantics and not worry too much about it, life is too short. If there are tons of user reports of, you guys broke this... it can always be added in a .1 release later, if not caught before the .0 release.
