Builtins in `std'

[Mark Mitchell]

>>>>> "Nathan" == Nathan Sidwell <nathan@codesourcery.com> writes:

    Nathan> not others. yeay even with -pedantic.  So as a user, I
    Nathan> agree.

Good.

    Nathan> With my compiler hat on, I find it strange/ugly that we
    Nathan> push tons of stuff into the user/library namespace. So,
    Nathan> again, I agree.

Good.

Thanks, now we've got three: you, me, Gaby.

    Nathan> Sometimes I wish we could just source some special header
    Nathan> file at startup which declared the magic things the
    Nathan> compiler must know about like std, std::bad_alloc,
    Nathan> operator new (size_t), etc. ahh, if only it were lisp,
    Nathan> mutter mutter ramble ...

Yes, we did this in another compiler I worked on.  It was much
simpler -- even though we did need a lot of `#if' code to handle
different architectures and such.  There are a few nasty technical
problems that make it hard to get it completely right, though, and you
basically need to define a preprocessor symbol for every command-line
option that affects your ABI.

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