Using C++ in gcc (was Re: [RFC] type safe trees)

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Jun 25, 2004, kenner@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu (Richard Kenner) wrote:

> But Ada and C++ are languages of roughly equivalent complexity

This might even be true, but a lot of the C++ complexity lies in the
compiler, whereas a lot of the Ada complexity is in the run-time.  The
C++ run-time adds exceptions to the requirements imposed by C.  Ada
requires far more than that, AFAIK.

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