[Bug c++/52957] Missing suggestions on '=' and '==' confusion

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http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52957

--- Comment #8 from Jonathan Wakely <redi at gcc dot gnu.org> 2012-04-14 12:24:47 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #7)
> It is not *technically* hard. Anyone that knows C and a bit of C++ can fix
> hundreds (if you know C++ well and have a some experience with the C++ parser,

There's the problem.  I know C++ very well but don't know the front end well
enough to work on it, and don't have time to learn it.  My main problem is that
everything is a void* so I have no idea what I can do with a given tree or what
type it is, so I just try something, it compiles (because there's no type
checking) so I run it then debug an ICE and continue by trial and error. 
That's not productive.  The bottleneck is not the bureaucracy for me.

> Indeed, but my point is that moving to C++ does little (in my opinion) to fix
> the infrastructure issues in GCC: dejagnu is awful, the wiki is unmaintained,

Why should the wiki be maintained? If people want to add to it they can, why
should there be a maintainer?