Hi Mark > I agree. Much to my dismay, the C and C++ committees don't seem to be > willing to work together to make sure that C remains a subset of C++.
I'm afraid my patch doesn't address that. :-) > Ben, to answer your original question, I don't think that lack of nested > address spaces is a fatal flaw, as long as the implementation otherwise > meets the spec, and as long as the implementation doesn't somehow make > it harder to add that. Good, I was hoping that would be the general opinion. > However, I'd like to know how final this proposal is, and how likely > it is to make the WG14 WP. I don't really know the answer to that. I will try and find out. Perhaps Chao-ying Fu (cc'ed) who implemented the fixed point arithmetic portion of the proposal knows more? > As always, I'm concerned about putting things into GCC and > then finding out that we have to change them in ways that are > not backwards compatible. Absolutely understood! Cheers, Ben
