On Thu, 18 Aug 2011, Jonathan Wakely wrote: > Personally I *like* it when a new release identifies portability > problems such as missing includes. I consider it an advantage, > and an improvement in the compiler.
That's a valid approach from a technology perspective. From a customer/user perspective it's just painful. These incompatibilities have been costing me days, if not weeks, when upgrading the versions of GCC in the FreeBSD Ports Collection, for example -- for no benefit to anyone since it all was about older version of ports or old pieces of software, abandoned upstream. (And it's mostly on the C++ front; C and Fortran appear a lot more stable.) Gerald
