On Oct 25, 2005, at 6:45 PM, Andrew Pinski wrote:
Does that really matter?
gcc is free to ignore users, existing code, porting problems from other platforms and other C implementations, if we so choose. I'm not used to writing such factors off wholesale. I tend to think a balance is better weighing all the different factors. On one hand, we have ascii line art in documentation, on the other hand, we have this esthetic beauty. Existing, otherwise portable code against, confusing a user that is trying to do cut and paste programming on terminal emulators running curses packages that break cut-n-paste that can be themselves fixed, to fix not just gcc cut-n-paste programming, but all cut-n-pasting they might do.
Absent users, absent porting otherwise portable code, absent other implementations, I'd stick with the esthetics.
