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Re: Using C++ in gcc (was Re: [RFC] type safe trees)
- From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>
- To: kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu (Richard Kenner)
- Cc: nathan at codesourcery dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: 26 Jun 2004 01:06:14 -0300
- Subject: Re: Using C++ in gcc (was Re: [RFC] type safe trees)
- Organization: Red Hat Global Engineering Services Compiler Team
- References: <10406251849.AA12491@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu>
On Jun 25, 2004, kenner@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu (Richard Kenner) wrote:
> But Ada and C++ are languages of roughly equivalent complexity
This might even be true, but a lot of the C++ complexity lies in the
compiler, whereas a lot of the Ada complexity is in the run-time. The
C++ run-time adds exceptions to the requirements imposed by C. Ada
requires far more than that, AFAIK.
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