On Saturday 10 September 2005 13:48, Gunther Piez wrote: > Why? > > I just switched my project to gcc-4.0.1 and now i get tons of warnings :-( > I always found the min/max operators extremly useful, especially der > assignment variations <?= and >?= . There isn't even an replacemant for > them I am aware of. > Hell, I even overloaded them :-) Ok, this is possible with some functions > too, but I find it rather cumbersome (but, hey, other people use java and > cold-blooded claim they are lucky with it). > I hoped, they would make it one day into normal C :-/ > Is there a reason?
It was an ill-defined and poorly maintained language extension that was broken in many cases. Proper replacements exist in standard C++: From http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.0.1/gcc/Deprecated-Features.html: "The G++ minimum and maximum operators (`<?' and `>?') and their compound forms (`<?=') and `>?=') have been deprecated and will be removed in a future version. Code using these operators should be modified to use std::min and std::max instead." Gr. Steven
