Of Bounties and Mercenaries

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

Joe Buck <Joe.Buck@synopsys.com> writes:

| On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 12:27:16AM +0200, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
| > Very recently, I've taken a poll among the g++ maintainers on the
| > matter of making the front-end compilable by (but -without- requiring)
| > a C++ compiler.  I got one positive feedback and one over-my-dead-body.
| 
| How close are we to that state today?  We'd need all the K&R C gone,
| and would need to avoid C++ keywords, but probably the big one is
| playing fast and loose with enums.

For the g++ part, K&R C is completely done.

I offered to produce patches to get rid of use of C++ keywords.  That
is part of what I call making the front-end compilable with a c++
compiler.

What do you mean by "loose with enums"?

-- Gaby