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Re: Objective-C++
- From: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at>
- To: Ziemowit Laski <zlaski at apple dot com>
- Cc: Joe Buck <jbuck at synopsys dot com>, Neil Booth <neil at daikokuya dot demon dot co dot uk>, Stan Shebs <shebs at apple dot com>, Mathieu Chouinard <chouimat at videotron dot ca>, <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 08:44:24 +0100 (CET)
- Subject: Re: Objective-C++
On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Ziemowit Laski wrote:
>> While no final vote was taken, it seemed that the consensus the last
>> time this was discussed seemed to be that it would be better to wait
>> until the parser rewrite to integrate Objective C++, since we plan to
>> throw away the current C++ parser in favor of Mark Mitchell's rewrite,
>> meaning that if we integrate before that work is complete then we have
>> to do duplicate work.
> Yes, and that is a very reasonable approach. However, what we (or at
> least I) haven't yet heard was the SC's official sanction of this idea
That probably just was a communications issue somewhere.
I believe the two only issues concerning Objective-C++ were the
parser-related one (that Joe mentioned) and whether it would make
the C++ frontend harder to maintain.
> (or a plausible timeline for its implementation). :)
As far as I understood, Mark/CodeSourcery would like to merge in the new
C++ parser after GCC 3.1 has branched, so that it should be available as
part of GCC 3.2.
Gerald
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