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Re: Compiling GCC with g++: a report
- From: Richard Guenther <richard dot guenther at gmail dot com>
- To: Diego Novillo <dnovillo at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at cs dot tamu dot edu>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, jason at redhat dot com, mark at codesourcery dot com, dberlin at dberlin dot org
- Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 18:18:05 +0200
- Subject: Re: Compiling GCC with g++: a report
- References: <m364xapix6.fsf@merlin.cs.tamu.edu> <20050524160611.GA21996@topo.toronto.redhat.com>
- Reply-to: Richard Guenther <richard dot guenther at gmail dot com>
On 5/24/05, Diego Novillo <dnovillo@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 01:15:17AM -0500, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
>
> > So, if various components maintainers (e.g. C and C++, middle-end,
> > ports, etc.) are willing to help quickly reviewing patches we can
> > have this done for this week (assuming mainline is unslushed soon).
> > And, of course, everybody can help :-)
> >
> If the final goal is to allow GCC components to be implemented in
> C++, then I am all in favour of this project. I'm pretty sick of
> all this monkeying around we do with macros to make up for the
> lack of abstraction.
It's also a good test to see how/whether the different trees the C++ frontend
presents to the middle-end impact our ability to optimize gcc itself. There
are quite some subtle differences out there asking to be "fixed", regardless
if we go to adopt C++ for writing gcc or not.
Richard.