Joe Buck wrote: >>Thanks for your assessment of the problem: indeed, I can tell you for >>sure that (b) it's true and, as reported by Kriang, the patches are >>rather simple (but the details of this judgement are up to you, of >>course). I'm not 100% sure about (a) but Michael can tell you better: >>AFAIK, KDE Kopete used to compile and work well pre-4.0. >> >> >I don't quite understand your answer. It seems that (a) is the important >issue; if the programs are valid, they compiled before, and they worked >before, then it seems there really is a regression, even if we can argue >that we were "right by accident" in the past. > > Joe, there is no doubt that those programs compiled before 4.0 and, by and large, worked before. The latter point it's a delicate matter of details, I don't have a complete answer right now, sorry, because, as repeated once more by Andrew (I thought it was enough ;) the behavior of the compiler pre-4.0 was wrong in some corner cases, the wrong function was friended. Then 4.0 changed that in a non-compile and 4.1 finally is completely ok.
Paolo.
