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Re: Putting C++ code into gcc front end
- From: Geert Bosch <bosch at gnat dot com>
- To: Zack Weinberg <zack at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: Richard dot Earnshaw at arm dot com, Olivier Galibert <galibert at pobox dot com>,Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at integrable-solutions dot net>,Rupert Wood <me at rupey dot net>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 13:18:56 -0500
- Subject: Re: Putting C++ code into gcc front end
On Tuesday, Mar 4, 2003, at 12:29 America/New_York, Zack Weinberg wrote:
Ignoring Ada for the moment, what if we only built the C front end,
optimizers, and back end during all three stages of a bootstrap? And
then came back to build the other front ends when we were
done? At that point, using C++ in the Java front end becomes
substantially less hassle: we just have to make sure the C++
front end and runtime library are built first. This effectively
puts each front end on the same footing as its runtime library.
I think this is a really good idea, I don't really see any
strong arguments for building the C++ compiler twice. The
argument against is that we're wasting everybody's time and
needlessly complicate build procedures and restrict ourselves
to whatever system compiler happens to be around instead of
using our own product.
-Geert