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Re: Adding to G++: Adding a warning on throwing unspecified exceptions.
On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 12:36 PM, Brian Dessent <brian@dessent.net> wrote:
> Simon Hill wrote:
>
>> http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gccint/index.html. (Of course I was
>> horrified to see it's not written in C++, and it's loaded with macros
>> --- why??).
>
> You seem to refer to g++ as if it's a separate program from gcc but it's
> really not. All of the middle- and back-end code is shared between the
> language front-ends, so if you introduce C++ there you now require a
> pre-existing C++ bootstrap compiler even for people that have no
> interest or need for C++ language support and are only building a C (or
> Fortran or Java or Ada) compiler. A lot of people have a problem with
I think java requires c++.