On 2 August 2011 14:08, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote: > Revisions 176335 removed the traditional "#include <unistd.h>" from > gthr-posix.h. This breaks the build of many programs (Firefox, Chromium, > etc.) that implicitly rely on it. > I'm not sure that the gain is worth the pain in this case.
The "pain" fixes a real bug in libstdc++ which caused g++ to reject valid programs. Not rejecting valid programs is more important than accepting invalid ones, especially ones that can be easily fixed by adding a missing header.
