Re: [bootstrap] Tentative fix for PR 54281

[Diego Novillo <dnovillo at google dot com>]

On 2012-08-19 07:18 , Arnaud Charlet wrote:
> > 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.

Thanks.

One potential issue I see here is that as we start using more C++ 
headers (and more C++ in existing headers), we will reach a point in 
which including something like system.h inside an extern "C" {} block 
will fail.

None of the GCC headers should be included as C code anymore.


Diego.