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Re: Putting C++ code into gcc front end
- From: Karel Gardas <kgardas at objectsecurity dot com>
- To: GCC Mailing List <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 23:03:23 +0100 (CET)
- Subject: Re: Putting C++ code into gcc front end
On Wed, 5 Mar 2003 tm_gccmail at mail dot kloo dot net wrote:
> I personally think having parts of GCC written in C++ is a bad idea,
> as it forces people to know Yet Another Language in addition to
> C, shell scripts, sed, makefiles, etc.
>
> However, if this happens, you might consider looking at Mozilla's
> C++ coding guidelines - they have experience with compiling with
> many different C++ compilers on many different platforms.
>
> Here's the URL:
>
> http://www.mozilla.org/hacking/portable-cpp.html
First five points on this list look quite restrictive:
- Don't use C++ templates.
- Don't use static constructors.
- Don't use exceptions.
- Don't use Run-time Type Information.
- Don't use namespace facility.
Cheers,
Karel
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