Re: incompatible 'improvements'

2005-10-01 Thread Scott Robert Ladd
George White wrote: Frankly, I don't care what standards say is no longer acceptable syntax. The standards have existed for quite some time, giving you plenty of time to get acquainted with the rules. Standards exist for a reason, and if you choose not to follow them, it is not the fault of t

Re: incompatible 'improvements'

2005-10-01 Thread Steven Bosscher
On Saturday 01 October 2005 01:02, George White wrote: > Frankly, I don't care what standards say is no longer acceptable > syntax. I think this is a nice summary of your mail. Fortunately, most of our users do care about this. Gr. Steven

Re: incompatible 'improvements'

2005-09-30 Thread Joe Buck
On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 04:02:07PM -0700, George White wrote: > I would like to suggest that in the future you pay more attention > to backwards computability. There have been at least 4 instances > where you broke the compiler with regard to being able to compile > legacy code. The C standard t

Re: incompatible 'improvements'

2005-09-30 Thread Robert Dewar
George White wrote: Frankly, I don't care what standards say is no longer acceptable syntax. Well it is a goal of gcc to be compatible with the standard. Really it should be a goal of yours to make sure your code is correct, i.e. that it conforms with the standard, and if you write incorrect

incompatible 'improvements'

2005-09-30 Thread George White
Hello, I would like to suggest that in the future you pay more attention to backwards computability. There have been at least 4 instances where you broke the compiler with regard to being able to compile legacy code. I have > 500K lines of older code which works perfectly well and should not be