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Re: Putting C++ code into gcc front end
Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at integrable-solutions dot net> writes:
> | > 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.
Terminological confusion. I consider it a feature that bootstrapping
GCC (the entire collection) exercises only the C (and Ada) compilers;
in other words I think it is desirable _not_ to bootstrap the C++
front end.
zw