Re: Putting C++ code into gcc front end

[Matt Austern <austern at apple dot com>]

On Tuesday, March 4, 2003, at 09:40 AM, Benjamin Kosnik wrote:

> > The last time this came up, I recall the conclusion being 'not for 3.3
> > but let's revisit this in the 3.4 cycle' which is now.  Personally I'd
> > be happy to see ISO C required for the entire compiler collection at
> > this point.
>
> Seconded. Thirded. I'm running out of hands here....
>
> > what if we only built the C front end, optimizers, and back end during
> > all three stages of a bootstrap?  And then came back to build the 
> > other
> > front ends when we were done?
>
> I think this sounds like a really good idea.

A good idea for now.   On the other hand...  Bootstraps are a nice 
sanity
test.  If the C++ front end is ever written in C++, surely we'll want 
to make
sure it can compile itself.

			--Matt