gcc-in-cxx branch created

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 6:24 PM, Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> wrote:
> Dear Ian,
>
> A comment regarding the GCC-in-C++ idea. In slide 16 you merely answer
>
>  "C++ is too complicated!"
>
> with
>
>  "Maintainers will ensure that gcc continues to be maintainable."
>
> C++ has, for example, 12 different ways to represent or invoke a function.
> It has no buikt-in typesafe "enum"s. Sooner or later developers will think

C++ enums are certainly improvements over C enums.  Below you
mentioned dynamic_cast working with enum sets, I don't what
you mean by that -- since any attempt to dynamic_cast an
enum is rejected at compile time.

-- Gaby