On Mon, 2010-01-11 at 19:05 -0800, Benjamin Kosnik wrote: > > Some of the support for those > > classes is in current trunk, but a crucial change to the compiler to > > allow binary compatibility between those classes and the C builtin > > types wasn't approved before the 4.5 feature cutoff (see > > http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2009-11/msg01321.html). > > Am a bit alarmed to see this patch dropped on the floor. It seem silly > to me to have C++ DFP support broken like this, when 4.5 is the first > release that claims support for this feature. It seems to me like we > should be trying to generate non-obvious bug reports with this new > feature, instead of the current unsatisfactory situation which prompted > this original message. > > From what I can tell, this was patch was posted, approved for 4.5 by > Jason, then delayed while the C++ ABI mailing list reached consensus. I > see that on 2009-11-24 Mark checked in the ABI change to the official > document. But then, the patch wasn't pinged, and was forgotten over the > holidays? > > What am I missing?
Jason never responded to the modified patch, and I thought it needed his approval. I pinged it before the end of stage 3 (or 2, or whatever). Can you ask Jason if it can still go in? I'm leaving on Thursday for a 3.5 week vacation when I'll be out of touch, but I could test it again before I go. Janis
