RFC: Moving C to its own directory

[Nathanael Nerode]

Richard Kenner wrote:
>     Anyway, "fe" is a horrible name.  (Down with acronyms!) "lang" would be 
>     better, so we'd have
>     gcc/lang/ada
>     gcc/lang/c
>     gcc/lang/cp
>     gcc/lang/f
>     gcc/lang/java
>     gcc/lang/objc
>     gcc/lang/treelang
> 
> I must say that reading this thread does not at all convince me there's
> any reason to do this.
> 
Me neither.  I was just emphasizing that 'fe' was a horrible name. :-)

Although there is, in fact, one reason to do this.

The loop over language config files (in the various configuration files) 
would be slightly simpler and less error-prone if each language had a 
subdirectory under, say, lang, and nothing but languages had such 
subdirectories.

But this isn't a good enough motivation to do this sort of massive 
change until we switch to a version control system which handles file 
moves elegantly.

--Nathanael