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Re: Using C++ in gcc (was Re: [RFC] type safe trees)



On Jun 25, 2004, at 14:40, Nathan Sidwell wrote:
So far your only point has been that bootstrapping to a virgin system
would be harder. (a) it's hard full stop (b) the ada compiler is in ada
which appears to be a more complicated language than C++, and it manages
to do such bootstraps.

Right, and actually the latest port to IA64/VMS has implemented nearly full Ada including tasking and exception handling, before we're even close to bootstrapping the C compiler. I agree that reason seems very weak.

However, I agree that the real issue is wether to take the first step
towards C++ or not, as the consensus is that once we take one step we'll
end up going all the way.

-Geert


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