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Re: Converting GCC to compilation with C++
On Jul 15, 2004, Bernd Schmidt <bernds@redhat.com> wrote:
> I'm slightly worried by this discussion, as I recall trying to write a
> portable program in C++ and giving up because I could not find two C++
> compilers that would agree on the language. Admittedly, that was a
> decade ago and compilers have gotten better, but to some extent it's
> still true that today's C++ code does not compile with tomorrow's
> compilers (eon from SPEC2000 for example doesn't build out of the box
> with recent g++).
This doesn't matter at all with my proposal. If you can build a
C-only C++ compiler in what I called stage0, you use it to build
stage1. As long as the C++ compiler we ship can compile the C++
language it uses, we're all set.
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