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Re: Putting C++ code into gcc front end

From: "Kaveh R. Ghazi" <ghazi at caip dot rutgers dot edu>
To: galibert at pobox dot com
Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 10:58:23 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: Putting C++ code into gcc front end
References: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0303041555460.5124-100000@wotan.suse.de> <3E64C09A.9070500@comsys.se> <m3fzq35fyu.fsf@uniton.integrable-solutions.net> <3E64C41C.1070303@comsys.se> <20030304104204.A27579@kerberos.ncsl.nist.gov>

Your information is slightly out of date:


 > The fortran library is written in atrociously mixed K&R/ISO C.

I converted libf2c to ISO C as of gcc-3.3.


 > The C++ frontend is written in K&R C with gcc extensions (talk about perverted).

The C++ frontend is (very slowly) being coverted to ISO C on the
mainline sources for 3.4.


 > The java frontend is written in K&R C with maybe C++ in the future.
 >   OG.

I converted the java frontend to ISO C in the mainline sources for 3.4.

		--Kaveh
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Kaveh R. Ghazi			ghazi at caip dot rutgers dot edu

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