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Re: Putting C++ code into gcc front end
Zack Weinberg <zack at codesourcery dot com> writes:
| Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at integrable-solutions dot net> writes:
|
| > I don't think this is much worse than the current situation where one
| > needs to have g++ + libstdc++-v3 built if one wants Java.
|
| It's at least incrementally more trouble. Right now, starting with
| just a C compiler, you can get a Java compiler without having to build
| and install C++ first.
You don't need to install C++ first. You just need to build C++.
And you have to do that anyway if you want libjava/verify.cc.
So that is a non-issue.
| > And bootstrap for C++ front-end is currently an oxymoron: it is just a
| > bootstrap for the C compiler.
|
| I consider this a feature.
Clearly, we do not have the same definition of feature.
I consider a definition of "boostrapping the C++ compiler" which just
means "bootstrapping the C compiler" a bug.
-- Gaby