"Zack Weinberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...]
| Also: why do you care so much about this corner case? I only care from the | implementation perspective, since I doubt it matters to any real software that | GCC might compile. I'm pointing out an approach to the problem which would | avoid having to change GCC at all, saving someone a great deal of coding | effort. You are arguing strongly for not changing this one tiny piece of the | standard, and I don't understand why. I think standards should be changed for valid or convincing reasons. So far, I've not seen any reason that convinced me that it should be changed. I've heard that it is a bug in the standard, but for reasons that it did not fit GCC current implementation or "diverged" from something that came after. It is not like people did not want to contribute patch to align GCC behaviour on standard semantics. Going through the audit trail, the impression I've gotten is you're blocking patches on the grounds that I have trouble finding words to describe. -- Gaby
