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Re: [bootstrap] Tentative fix for PR 54281

From: Arnaud Charlet <charlet at adacore dot com>
To: Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou at adacore dot com>
Cc: Diego Novillo <dnovillo at google dot com>, Richard Guenther <rguenther at suse dot de>, "gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org" <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>
Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2012 13:18:25 +0200
Subject: Re: [bootstrap] Tentative fix for PR 54281
References: <20120816115551.GA13453@google.com> <alpine.LNX.2.00.1208161449490.28649@zhemvz.fhfr.qr> <502CF9D5.4080009@google.com> <201208191134.40886.ebotcazou@adacore.com>

> The conditionals cannot be removed for the time being because the foreign 
> language interface of the Ada part of the compiler is hardcoded for C.
> 
> Barring a massive switch to the Ada language for the GNU project, we would need 
> to switch the foreign language interface to C++, which might introduce various 
> maintenance issues in the short term (Arno CCed).

Yes, that would be a large hearthquake for both the compiler and the run-time, which is unwanted at this stage. I guess the solution for now is to more selectively export the various symbols as C symbols and include header files as is.

Arno

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