On Mon, 7 Mar 2005, Mark Mitchell wrote: > Steven Bosscher wrote: > > On Monday 07 March 2005 19:49, Mark Mitchell wrote: > > > > > The way I think about this is that G++ has long supported the GNU > > > min/max expression extension -- and it's long been broken. Over the > > > years, I've fielded several bug reports about that extension, and we've > > > gradually cleaned it up, but mostly it's just been neglected. > > > > So, maybe the extension is not used very much. Perhaps it should be > > removed? > > I don't think it's used very much. It doesn't buy you much brevity, and in > C++, you would generally use std::max/std::min anyhow. > > I'd be happy to see it (deprecated and then) removed, but I think we'd need > buy-in from the C front end maintainers. As extensions go, it's actually not > that bad; the semantics are relatively well defined.
The min/max expression extension is C++ only, the C front end doesn't have it. (Removing the extension is separate from the question of whether MIN_EXPR and MAX_EXPR are useful parts of GENERIC to facilitate some optimizations.) -- Joseph S. Myers http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~jsm28/gcc/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (personal mail) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (CodeSourcery mail) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bugzilla assignments and CCs)
