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Re: Using C++ in GCC is OK

From: Jeff Law <law at redhat dot com>
To: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>
Cc: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>, Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>, GCC <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2010 18:55:52 -0600
Subject: Re: Using C++ in GCC is OK
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On 06/04/10 18:48, Mark Mitchell wrote:

In C++, you can of course make what looks like simple code do something expensive; for example, you can make "a + b" be arbitrarily complex if "a" and "b" are instances of class types and you have overloaded "+".

And, in general, we are trying to avoid situations where seemingly simple code does something expensive, right?

Jeff

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