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Re: demengler in libstdc++ is changed


Ian Lance Taylor <ian@wasabisystems.com> writes:

| Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr@integrable-solutions.net> writes:
| 
| > Chris Lattner <sabre@nondot.org> writes:
| > 
| > | I'm not sure what the problem would be here.  It would simply be a C file
| > | that would be compiled and linked into the program.  The point is that you
| > | wouldn't _need_ a C++ runtime.  In LLVM, the C runtime library for
| > | setjmp/longjmp is written in C++, for example, and is compiled into C
| > | programs all of the time without lib(sup|std)c++.
| > 
| > Many C++ runtime implementors have reached the conclusion that the C
| > runtime is far more efficiently and effectively implemented on top of
| > C++ (rather than the inverse); however that idea seems to meet
| > (non-technical) resistance (I have no workable theory of why). 
| 
| Well, one obvious reason is that not all C programmers want to learn
| C++.

I fully understand that.  But, I'm not requesting C programmers to
learn C++.

-- Gaby


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