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Re: RFC - Remove support for PCH post 4.8
On Nov 27, 2012, at 3:32 PM, Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou@adacore.com> wrote:
>> I admit that I'm partly fishing here, but my proposal is based on the
>> following:
>>
>> * The implementation of PCH in GCC is atrocious and hard to maintain.
>> * The next C++ standard is likely to define modules
>> (http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2012/n3347.pdf)
>> * The user-base for PCH is negligibly small (here's where I'm mostly
>> guessing). * PCH is absolutely useless for C.
>>
>> Removing PCH will give us more implementation freedom for the memory
>> management project
>> (http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/cxx-conversion/gc-alternatives).
>
> One of the arguments put forward to advocate the transition to C++ was the
> competition. Where do the other compilers stand when it comes to PCHs?
Clang has fantastic support for PCH... and soon modules. We don't plan to drop PCH support when modules is implemented.
-Chris