gcc extensibility

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 10:34 AM, Romain Geissler
<romain.geissler@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> Le 29 mars 2012 à 14:34, Niels Möller a écrit :
>
>> 1. I imagine the plugin API ought to stay in plain C, right?
>
> I don't know if this was already discussed and if the community
> ended up with a clear answer for this question. If it's not the case
> i would prefer a plugin interface in C++, for the same reasons it
> was decided to slowly move the internals to C++.
>

I do not think people working on plugins have come up with a
specification and an API they agree on.  Which makes any talk
of restricting GCC's own evolution premature if not pointless.

-- Gaby