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Re: [PATCH]: Resolve C++ keyword conflicts in gen*.c
"Richard Guenther" <richard.guenther@gmail.com> writes:
> On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 1:10 AM, Gabriel Dos Reis
> <gdr@integrable-solutions.net> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 12:22 PM, Kaveh R. GHAZI <ghazi@caip.rutgers.edu> wrote:
>>> This patch eliminates some conflicts with C++ keywords in the gen*.c files.
>>>
>>> Bootstrapped on x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, no regressions.
>>>
>>> Okay for mainline?
>>
>> The naming looks good to me -- though I do not know whether
>> people prefer template_code over code_template.
>> Richard, Ian?
>
> I don't mind either way. But I want to raise another issue again -- the
> generator programs are C - what is the value to build them with a C++
> compiler now? Why not disable -Wc++ for them?
This is not like the runtime library case. The generator programs are
part of the compiler source code, and I would argue that they should
eventually be written in C++ just as the rest of the compiler should
eventually be written in C++.
Ian