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Re: gengtype and inheritance
- From: Richard Biener <richard dot guenther at gmail dot com>
- To: Diego Novillo <dnovillo at google dot com>
- Cc: Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at integrable-solutions dot net>, gcc <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 13:53:03 +0100
- Subject: Re: gengtype and inheritance
- References: <CAAiZkiB3=+taq3F0RxgUiHJdu7Prwe5MFHsL_N8Lr5ZUySj96g at mail dot gmail dot com> <51543C66 dot 5080609 at google dot com>
On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 1:49 PM, Diego Novillo <dnovillo@google.com> wrote:
> On 2013-03-28 07:57 , Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
>>
>> Does gengetype works with inheritance now? I could not
>> find anything to that effect in the documentation.
>>
> No. The plan is to get rid of gengtype by implementing manual markers
> (http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/cxx-conversion/gc-alternatives). But those plans
> are just plans for now.
Eh - in fact you _promised_ to do that in trade for accepting the C++
conversion!
Never trust promises from google ... *sigh*
Now we are in the exact situation I was feared about - people will start
hacking around the C++ gengtype limitations in various ways instead of
doing it properly (because "those plans are just plans").
:/
Richard.