I've applied this patch to mention the extended identifiers changes in the GCC 5 release notes.
Index: changes.html =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/gcc-5/changes.html,v retrieving revision 1.24 diff -u -r1.24 changes.html --- changes.html 14 Nov 2014 18:08:51 -0000 1.24 +++ changes.html 14 Nov 2014 21:32:11 -0000 @@ -131,6 +131,10 @@ On e.g. i?86 or x86-64 the above will result in <code>mul</code> instruction followed by jump on overflow. </li> + <li>The option <code>-fextended-identifiers</code> is now enabled + by default for C++, and for C99 and later C versions. Various + bugs in the implementation of extended identifiers have been + fixed.</li> </ul> <h3 id="c">C</h3> -- Joseph S. Myers jos...@codesourcery.com