Re: [PATCH, CPP/23827] standard C++ should not have hex float preprocessing tokens

[Ed Smith-Rowland]

On 08/28/2014 09:47 AM, Jason Merrill wrote:

On 08/28/2014 09:41 AM, Marc Glisse wrote:

In my opinion it is not appropriate for a backport, no. If someone was
using hex floats with -std=c++98 with 4.9.1, it should still work with
4.9.2, I only expect to have to fix such things when moving to 5.0.

Agreed.

Jason

OK, I understand.  Makes sense.
It is a capability change not really just a bugfix per se.
On that note is it worth a sentence in Changes?

Ed