A FrontEnd in C++?

[Pop Sébastian]

Hi,

On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 02:50:47PM -0400, Daniel Berlin wrote:
> > 
> > P.S.: I even thought sometimes about (re)writing some of the optimizations
> > in C++.  
> 
> I've actually started doing it many times.
> In particular, i've still got the start of an interprocedural middle-end 
> (IE takes trees from many modules) written in C++.
> 
> You can't believe how nice it is to just simply be able to do things like 
> std::set<tree>, etc.
> It seems trivial, but it's really a lot nicer to work with classes.
> 

Why not beginning to write the AST optimizer in C++?

The AST optimizer is not needed for building the C, nor the C++ compiler,
but once g++ is built we could build the AST optimizer.

This way we avoid to require a C++ compiler for building a part of GCC.