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Re: Putting C++ code into gcc front end
- From: Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at integrable-solutions dot net>
- To: Michael Matz <matz at suse dot de>
- Cc: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>, GCC Hackers <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: 04 Mar 2003 16:00:52 +0100
- Subject: Re: Putting C++ code into gcc front end
- Organization: Integrable Solutions
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0303041555460.5124-100000@wotan.suse.de>
Michael Matz <matz at suse dot de> writes:
| Hi,
|
| On 3 Mar 2003, Tom Tromey wrote:
|
| > However, the libgcj verifier is written in C++. So, if I were to do
| > this, it would mean adding some C++ code to the gcj front end.
| >
| > In case it matters, the C++ code in question is in gcc/libjava/verify.cc.
|
| Regarding the use of C++ in the non-{C,C++} frontends I'm undecided. But
| if something like verify.cc gets into bootstrap process, we somewhen need
| to speed up the compiler. verify.cc and interpret.cc are two of the most
| time suckers in compiling the compiler generally and libjava especially.
| I wouldn't like to have this code compiled three times.
I believe the compiler compile-time performance is part of release criteria.
-- Gaby