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Re: GCC 4.4.0 Status Report (2009-03-13)
- From: Ben Elliston <bje at au1 dot ibm dot com>
- To: Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at integrable-solutions dot net>
- Cc: Jeff Law <law at redhat dot com>, Richard Kenner <kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu>, Joe dot Buck at synopsys dot com, bonzini at gnu dot org, dave dot korn dot cygwin at googlemail dot com, dberlin at dberlin dot org, dje dot gcc at gmail dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, mark at codesourcery dot com, rguenther at suse dot de, stevenb dot gcc at gmail dot com
- Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 10:11:43 +1100
- Subject: Re: GCC 4.4.0 Status Report (2009-03-13)
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On Sun, 2009-03-22 at 17:43 -0500, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> Well, the request was not about the full gamut of C++, but rather
> a subset. And the time of the discussion, I thought the subset
> was quite conservative. Every programming language can
> be abused -- and I don't think I've made an exception for C++.
GCC would not be the first project (free, or proprietary) that I have
seen attempt to use a subset of C++. I don't think I've ever seen this
succeed. Inevitably, use of certain features crawl in when there is no
cleaner way to achieve something and then precedent can be used as an
argument for further use.
I'm a bit sceptical.
Ben