Re: GNU gcc upgrades

On Sunday 21 September 2003 02:48 pm, Jacq, John wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel C. von Asmuth [mailto:asmuth-8LkvcxCLB6JmR6Xm/[email protected]]
...
> Hard to ignore if the code doesn't compile at all because of "errors"
> :^)
>
> And yes I am the author more often than not, I still wonder why
> upgrading your gcc compiler causes code deemed 100% valid with the
> previous gcc version to be suddenly deemed badly lame. Seems kind of
> strange to me.

This is simply a question of how well the compilers are enforcing the 
language specification.  

You should first make sure that your code is in perfect compliance with 
the language spec BEFORE passing it to the compiler :-).

-Dan