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Re: Support for export keyword to use with C++ templates ?
- From: Kai Henningsen <kai-mail at khms dot eu>
- To: Dodji Seketeli <dodji at redhat dot com>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Sat, 06 Feb 2010 17:20:57 +0100
- Subject: Re: Support for export keyword to use with C++ templates ?
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Dodji Seketeli wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 01:47:03AM +0200, Timothy Madden wrote:
>
>> So nobody here wants to try a big thing ? :(
>>
>
> This question strikes me as being not very fair because many GCC people
> are already pretty much involved. Would you fancy giving a hand?
>
>
>> How long would it take for someone to understand how parsing works in
>> g++ ? Or to understand the build system in gcc ?
>>
>
> It depends (amongst other things) on the motivation of said person, I
> guess. Maybe several months? As usual in this kind of things, I guess a
> good approach is to try to scratch your own itches without thinking too
> much about the time it would take, especially for something as big as
> this particular feature you are talking about :-)
>
> Dodji
>
I'd like to remind people that the EDG people expect this to need
something between two and three man-years. That seems to mean as a
full-time job. That's four to six *years* if you spend half your working
time on it.
Something to think about.