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Re: Converting GCC to compilation with C++
- From: "Gabriel Dos Reis" <gdr at acm dot org>
- To: "Richard Kenner" <kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu>
- Cc: gdr at acm dot org, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 17:20:04 +0200 (CEST)
- Subject: Re: Converting GCC to compilation with C++
- References: <10407141515.AA25790@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu>
- Reply-to: gdr at acm dot org
Richard Kenner:
> If we ever happen to agree on using a subset of C++ (which, according
> to last report is not going to happen anytime soon) and we agree on
> not using MI (that is a big if), then we could manage to enforce its
> detection through a -W option.
>
> Fair enough, but that's not what you said originally. I strongly agree
> with automatic procedures to address code quality issues, but you
> were originally planning to rely on the review process to do that,
> and that was what I was objecting to.
There is a difference between automatically diagnosing forbidden
features and assessing code quality.
Not just because a patch is written in C means it is
of good quality. Isn't it?
-- Gaby