[RFC] libstdc++/6720 and libstdc++/6671

[Zack Weinberg]

On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 07:41:13AM +0200, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> 
> You're missing the entire point.  The proposal is this:  A flag
> --no-standard-headers maintains the actual (non-comforming)
> behaviour.  When turned off it delivers the expected (== standard)
> semantics.  As such existing programs abusing of that non-conforming
> behaviour have the old semantics when turned on.  Nothing breaks.

If the flag is off by default, all the old programs do indeed break.
Someone has to go add the switch to all their makefiles.

zw