On 1/19/18, Nathan Sidwell <nat...@acm.org> wrote:
> Jason,
> what do you think about deprecating the ARM-era for-scope handling that
> allows:
> void f ()
> {
> for (int i = 0;;);
> i = 2;
> }
>
> we noisily accept that in c++98 mode with -fpermissive. It wasn't even
> well formed then. Implementing this has some unique requirements in the
> name-lookup machinery, which I ran into again today.
>
> Option A: rip out now because it's a c++98 ARM-compatibility crutch
> Option B: deprecate in gcc-8 and remove in gcc-9.
>
I support Option B because it's good to let people know ahead of time
about impending removals of things
> nathan
>
> --
> Nathan Sidwell
>
