Compiling GCC with g++: a report

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

Zack Weinberg <zack@codesourcery.com> writes:

| Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr@integrable-solutions.net> writes:
| 
| > But we do not get any expressive power by using C++ keywords.  
| 
| Readability, readability, readability.
| 
| (for instance, 'class' vs. 'klass'

When replacing "class" with a new identifier, "klass" it not the only
choice.  Therefore, it does not appear that you have exhibited any
loss of readability.  You have just suggested a worst choise, but it
is not the only one we have.

[...]

| > | (And I'd be less grumpy about coding to the intersection of C and
| > | C++ if someone coded up warnings for the C compiler to catch
| > | things outside the intersection.)
| >
| > Consider that to be a follow-up that I'm willing to do, if these
| > preliminary patches are in.
| 
| Thank you, I appreciate that.

So, were do we stand?  

Notice again that none of the changes are outside our existing coding
conventions. 

-- Gaby