Re: Compiling GCC With a C++ Compiler (g++)

[Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at cs dot tamu dot edu>]

Phil Edwards <phil@codesourcery.com> writes:

[...]

| particular place.  Since member init-lists aren't available for STRING_CST,
| we have to cast away the const in build_string

which is undefined behaviour by C rules  (and C++ too).

| The const should stay; C is not C++, and the way in which write-once

Most certainly C is not C++, and nobody is arguing otherwise.
However, there is a large and good intersection of both languages
where useful programs can be expressed through constructs with defined
meaning. 

Taking explicit steps to put in hackery that 

  (1) is undefined behaviour;
  (2) break works to make the compiler compilable with C++ (which was
     agreed upon) is both unproductive and <bip censored>.

-- Gaby