gcc-in-cxx branch created

[Ian Lance Taylor]

[ I dropped gcc-patches from this reply. ]

Diego Novillo <dnovillo@google.com> writes:

> On 6/18/08 2:01 AM, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
>> As I promised at the summit today, I have created the branch
>> gcc-in-cxx (I originally said gcc-in-c++, but I decided that it was
>> better to avoid possible meta-characters).  The goal of this branch is
>> to develop a version of gcc which is compiled with C++.  Here are my
>> presentation slides in PDF format: http://airs.com/ian/cxx-slides.pdf .
>
> Will this evolve into a branch to switch GCC's implementation language
> to C++.  Or are you thinking about a separate branch for this?

Yes, that is the goal of this branch: to switch GCC's implementation
language.  My hope is to keep this branch fairly close to mainline,
except that gcc code will be compiled with C++.  My hope is then to
merge the branch back into mainline, at which point gcc will be
written in C++.

Questions like exactly which gcc code will be compiled with C++ on the
branch remain open, but it will certainly include everything in
libbackend.a.

Ian