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Re: gcc-in-cxx branch created
> I've thought such a thing would be useful for C style as well.
Right. It just becomes more of an issue if people start using C++
which is a much more complex and large language, but it would also benefit
gcc developers today to have C coding standard checked automatically.
> One slight complication is that while a limited subset of C++ should be
> fine for most of the compiler, there may be a use for many more features
> (provided those features are still supported by the baseline bootstrap
> compiler version, e.g. 3.4) in selected areas that provide infrastructure
> for use in the rest of the compiler (just as now we have complicated
> macros in vec.h, and maintainers need not care most of the time about the
> implementations of them, just about how to use them). So you may have
> features that should not be freely spread throughout the compiler but
> should be allowed for particular pieces of code only.
You can use special pragmas or attributes to tell the coding checker which
subset is allowed for a given file.
Arno