From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17178 invoked by alias); 21 Jun 2008 09:55:42 -0000 Received: (qmail 17168 invoked by uid 22791); 21 Jun 2008 09:55:42 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from main.gmane.org (HELO ciao.gmane.org) (80.91.229.2) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Sat, 21 Jun 2008 09:55:08 +0000 Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1K9zoE-0006zy-KX for gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org; Sat, 21 Jun 2008 09:55:02 +0000 Received: from echo472.server4you.de ([85.25.138.222]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 21 Jun 2008 09:55:02 +0000 Received: from I.Levashew by echo472.server4you.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 21 Jun 2008 09:55:02 +0000 To: gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org From: Ivan Levashew Subject: Re: gcc-in-cxx branch created Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2008 11:00:00 -0000 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1251; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; ru; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080421 Thunderbird/2.0.0.14 ThunderBrowse/3.2.1.4 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: X-Image-URL: http://img220.echo.cx/img220/9664/111408397042725603791c71pb.gif Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gcc-patches-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-patches-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2008-06/txt/msg01357.txt.bz2 Ian Lance Taylor ïèøåò: > 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 . > Well, C's macros are ugly, but C++ isn't a way to go either. The fact that C++ is partially implemented in GCC and belongs to the GCC main distribution is the only excuse for choosing C++. -- If you want to get to the top, you have to start at the bottom