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Re: GCC 4.4.0 Status Report (2009-03-13)
- From: Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at integrable-solutions dot net>
- To: Ben Elliston <bje at au1 dot ibm dot com>
- Cc: Jeff Law <law at redhat dot com>, Richard Kenner <kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu>, Joe dot Buck at synopsys dot com, bonzini at gnu dot org, dave dot korn dot cygwin at googlemail dot com, dberlin at dberlin dot org, dje dot gcc at gmail dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, mark at codesourcery dot com, rguenther at suse dot de, stevenb dot gcc at gmail dot com
- Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 18:30:41 -0500
- Subject: Re: GCC 4.4.0 Status Report (2009-03-13)
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On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 6:11 PM, Ben Elliston <bje@au1.ibm.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-03-22 at 17:43 -0500, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
>
>> Well, the request was not about the full gamut of C++, but rather
>> a subset. ?And the time of the discussion, I thought the subset
>> was quite conservative. Every programming language can
>> be abused -- and I don't think I've made an exception for C++.
>
> GCC would not be the first project (free, or proprietary) that I have
> seen attempt to use a subset of C++. ?I don't think I've ever seen this
> succeed. ?Inevitably, use of certain features crawl in when there is no
> cleaner way to achieve something and then precedent can be used as an
> argument for further use.
And there certainly are successful projects using a subset of C++ too.
Whether you have not seen them is, well, a different matter :-)
-- Gaby