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Re: Ada policy
Robert Dewar <dewar@gnat.com> writes:
| Zack Weinberg wrote:
|
| > Having thought about this a bit more, I can only defend a slightly
| > weaker assertion based on messages I can actually find in the mailing
| > list archives. See my response to Kenner. Can you agree that a
| > reasonable person could have reached *that* conclusion?
|
| Well quite a bit weaker actually :-) Saying that we were deliberately
| breaking things seemed to be going a bit far!
|
| The issue is a simple one. It is the extent of the guarantee that
| it will be possible to bootstrap from previous versions. If you
| imagine for a moment that the g++ front end were written entirely
| in C++, I think you can see that it would not be quite so easy to
| guarantee that it could be bootstrapped with any previous version
| of g++.
Why imagining the case of g++ when you can take the actual case of
cc1, the C front-end? :-)
-- Gaby