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C++ support? Re: PATCH: named address space support
- From: "Ulrich Weigand" <uweigand at de dot ibm dot com>
- To: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Cc: richard dot guenther at gmail dot com (Richard Guenther), bje at au1 dot ibm dot com
- Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:57:20 +0200 (CEST)
- Subject: C++ support? Re: PATCH: named address space support
Ben Elliston wrote:
> > The middle-end parts look ok, though I think the majority of the
> > patch should be reviewed by a C frontend maintainer. Out of
> > curiosity, does GNU C++ after this patch support named
> > address-spaces?
>
> No. The embedded C proposal does not cover C++ and the patch does not
> enable this feature in the C++ front-end. That may change in future,
> but the language interactions of any proposed extension need to be
> carefully thought through.
In fact, we'd be pretty interested in a C++ extension of this feature;
unfortunately, there doesn't seem to exist an already worked-out
definition of language extension syntax/semantics for named address
spaces for C++ equivalent to the C version in TR 18037.
If any of the C++ experts has some advice or pointers to how this
feature should be implemented in C++, we'd much appreciate that!
Thanks,
Ulrich
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Dr. Ulrich Weigand
GNU Toolchain for Linux on System z and Cell BE
Ulrich.Weigand@de.ibm.com