Compiling GCC with g++: a report

[Kevin Handy]

Diego Novillo wrote:

>On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 01:15:17AM -0500, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
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>>So, if various components maintainers (e.g. C and C++, middle-end,
>>ports, etc.)  are willing to help quickly reviewing patches we can
>>have this done for this week (assuming mainline is unslushed soon).
>>And, of course, everybody can help :-)
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>If the final goal is to allow GCC components to be implemented in
>C++, then I am all in favour of this project.  I'm pretty sick of
>all this monkeying around we do with macros to make up for the
>lack of abstraction.
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>Diego.
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It might be interesting, sometime in the future, to fork a version
of GCC into a C++ version, just to see what can be done with it.

It might make it easier for someone to write their own front/back
end by using existing classes to fill out most of the standard stuff,
and to build up trees using classes, etc.