Re: Unified C and C++ front end (was Re: New C parser [patch])

["Joseph S. Myers" <jsm@polyomino.org.uk>]

On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:

> Yet, both committees have agreed to work together on producing TRs
> that tackle issues of interest to both languages.

Just as there are issues of interest to both languages where work can 
usefully be shared, there are areas where front end code can usefully be 
shared - and just as importantly where internal representations can be 
shared.  This doesn't mean that "the whole thing" is the correct part to 
share, or that code or internal representations should be shared where the 
internal concepts in the languages have diverged too much for a single 
code base to be evidently correct in both cases even if the source code 
syntax is the same or similar in both languages.  (Nor does it mean the 
present c-common.c is a good selection of areas where sharing makes sense; 
most of the other shared source files, with better-defined aims, are 
rather better examples of sharing.)

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