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Re: RFA: Please review the new C++ demangler patch
- From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>
- To: dewar at gnat dot com (Robert Dewar)
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, gdr at integrable-solutions dot net, ofv at wanadoo dot es
- Date: 01 Jul 2003 11:57:16 -0300
- Subject: Re: RFA: Please review the new C++ demangler patch
- Organization: GCC Team, Red Hat
- References: <20030701135639.AD72EF2D84@nile.gnat.com>
I really meant my comment as a joke (I was even undecided whether to
post it to the list or in private), but since you followed up taking
the point a bit seriously, let's see where this takes us :-)
On Jul 1, 2003, dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar) wrote:
>> Yeah, let's do it in Ada :-P :-D
> Well of course we do write the Ada runtime in Ada, but we do so in a very
> small subset of Ada, roughly equivalent to C, so that precisely there will
> not be awkward dependencies and bootstrap path issues.
And how is this different from abstracting malloc/free into a template
class that behaves somewhat like the standard C++ vector and has a
similar name, for the benefit of the maintainability of the demangler
without introducing awkward dependencies and bootstrap path issues?
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