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Re: Putting C++ code into gcc front end
- From: Joern Rennecke <joern dot rennecke at superh dot com>
- To: Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha at arm dot com>
- Cc: Olivier Galibert <galibert at pobox dot com>, Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at integrable-solutions dot net>, Rupert Wood <me at rupey dot net>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2003 16:47:04 +0000
- Subject: Re: Putting C++ code into gcc front end
- Organization: SuperH UK Ltd.
> > > Just at this point it isn't reasonable to assume that there
> > > are conforming (even sufficiently conforming) C++ compilers widely
> > > available on the wide range of hosts that GCC currently supports.
> > > There is gcc 3.2.2.
>
> But that doesn't support hosts that might come along in the future (or are
> you proposing to maintain it in perpetuity?)
Well, for new hosts, we can use a cross-compiler on an established host to
start the bootstrapping.
That way, we need no pre-existing compiler on the new system.
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