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Re: gcc-in-cxx branch created
- From: Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>
- To: Diego Novillo <dnovillo at google dot com>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 08:56:54 -0700
- Subject: Re: gcc-in-cxx branch created
- References: <m363s746yo.fsf@google.com> <48592CBD.4000100@google.com>
[ I dropped gcc-patches from this reply. ]
Diego Novillo <dnovillo@google.com> writes:
> On 6/18/08 2:01 AM, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
>> As I promised at the summit today, I have created the branch
>> gcc-in-cxx (I originally said gcc-in-c++, but I decided that it was
>> better to avoid possible meta-characters). The goal of this branch is
>> to develop a version of gcc which is compiled with C++. Here are my
>> presentation slides in PDF format: http://airs.com/ian/cxx-slides.pdf .
>
> Will this evolve into a branch to switch GCC's implementation language
> to C++. Or are you thinking about a separate branch for this?
Yes, that is the goal of this branch: to switch GCC's implementation
language. My hope is to keep this branch fairly close to mainline,
except that gcc code will be compiled with C++. My hope is then to
merge the branch back into mainline, at which point gcc will be
written in C++.
Questions like exactly which gcc code will be compiled with C++ on the
branch remain open, but it will certainly include everything in
libbackend.a.
Ian