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Re: A FrontEnd in C++?

From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>
To: Zack Weinberg <zack at codesourcery dot com>
Cc: Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs dot mu dot oz dot au>, khalid aggag <khalidaggag at hotmail dot com>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: 19 Aug 2002 10:55:41 -0300
Subject: Re: A FrontEnd in C++?
Organization: GCC Team, Red Hat
References: <F37crCgXAC98D6B8MK9000097e3@hotmail.com><20020819074617.GA2010@earth.cs.mu.oz.au><20020819080229.GE14079@codesourcery.com>

On Aug 19, 2002, Zack Weinberg <zack@codesourcery.com> wrote:

> Based on the number of problems we have encountered with the Ada front
> end compared to the others, I think that as a matter of project policy
> writing front ends in any language other than C should be discouraged.

I disagree.  The problems have all been caused by the front end
requiring a pre-existing, compatible build of itself to build.  Using
C++ to create a front end for any language other than C++ wouldn't
bring in any new problems.

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Alexandre Oliva   Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/
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