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Carey Evans wrote:
> On Oct 2, 6:49 am, "Mahbub" <mozad DOT  DOT  DOT  AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
>> Why the operators <?= and >?= (min and max) are not supported in DJGPP? Is
>> there any plan to add them in future?
> 
> The GCC 4.2 changelog at http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.2/changes.html says:
> 
>     The <?, >?, <?=, and >?= operators, deprecated in previous GCC
> releases, have been removed.
> 
> They're not standard C, so I doubt they'll be back.  If you need them
> you'll need to use one of the older versions of GCC.
> 

Instead of removing them, they (the gcc people) probably should have 
pushed them for inclusion in C0x (C1x?), as they're useful.  Of course, 
maybe they did for C99 and they were rejected.

	-hpa