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Re: Whatever happened to -fembedded-cxx?
- To: "Martin v. Loewis" <martin at loewis dot home dot cs dot tu-berlin dot de>
- Subject: Re: Whatever happened to -fembedded-cxx?
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 18:10:15 -0700
- cc: shebs at apple dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <200003222345.AAA01391@loewis.home.cs.tu-berlin.de>you write:
> I don't recall it ever being in egcs, so it must have been in Cygnus
> gcc.
That is correct.
> Well, I guess I can't say much more than has been said before, by
> other people and on other forums. EC++ does not do what it claims to
> do (in particular, the claim that it is a subset of standard C++),
> compilers don't (necessarily) perform the optimizations they are
> supposed to perform, and the selection of deleted features appears
> arbitrary considering the target audiencs. In particular, I fail to
> see why the removal of namespaces has any impact whatsoever on
> performance of target code; pretty much the same holds for the removal
> of templates.
This is the general reason why that code has never been contributed -- it's
never been clear that EC++ actually does what it is intended to do.
jeff