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Re: GCC 4.7.0RC: Mangled names in cc1
On Fri, 2012-03-09 at 11:41 +0100, Ludovic CourtÃs wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Andrew Pinski <pinskia@gmail.com> skribis:
>
> > 2012/3/9 Ludovic CourtÃs <ludovic.courtes@inria.fr>:
> >
> >> I believe this is not intentional, right?
> >
> > No, this is intentional. We bootstrap the compiler using the C++
> > front-end now. We build stage1 with the C compiler and then build
> > stages 2 and 3 with the C++ compiler.
Aha - we've been running into problems with this when people try to
build the gcc python plugin on different distibution's builds of gcc [1]
> OK.
>
> However, this means that plug-ins must now be built with g++, except
> when GCC was configured with --disable-build-poststage1-with-cxx. This
> seems difficult to deal with, for plug-in writers.
Agreed; this makes life much more difficult for GCC plugins.
Dave
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https://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/gcc-python-plugin/2012-March/000203.html