Re: Do we care if C compilers start allowing "." on pointers?

On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 06:50:21PM -0500, Jason Merrill wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 11, 2025 at 12:13 PM David Malcolm <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2025-01-10 at 07:02 -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > > Hello!
> > >
> > > Currently, given a pointer "p", C allows p->a but not p.a.  There is a
> > > proposal from C++ [1] that is being considered for C.
> > >
> > > Do we care?
> >
> > Is the proposal likely to actually happen to either C++ or C?
> 
> Seems unlikely to me.  I don't think it's worthwhile in general to
> look at papers targeting the "incubator" study groups, which serve as
> a first pass to weed out less interesting proposals and recommend
> early improvements for papers that move on to the next step.

Thank you all!

Given the feedback, I feel comfortable stating that the Linux-kernel
community is opposed to this proposal.

							Thanx, Paul