I am trying to understand the status of this bug and the patch
that fixes it. It looks like a patch was submitted and checked
in for 5.0 to fix the problem reported and I see the new
behavior caused by the patch in GCC 5.X compilers. This behavior
caused a number of issues with configures and scripts that examined
preprocessed output as is mentioned in the bug report for PR 60723.
There was a later bug, 64864, complaining about the behavior and
that was closed as invalid.
But when I look at GCC 6.X or ToT compilers I do not see the same
behavior as 5.X. Was this patch reverted or was a new patch submitted
that undid some of this patches behavior? I couldn't find any revert or
new patch to replace the original one so I am not sure when or why
the code changed back after the 5.X releases.
Here is a test case that I am preprocessing with g++ -E:
#include <stdbool.h>
class foo {
void operator= ( bool bit);
operator bool() const;
};
GCC 5.4 breaks up the operator delcarations with line markers and GCC 6.2
does not.
Steve Ellcey
sell...@caviumnetworks.com
