From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8830 invoked by alias); 4 Mar 2003 17:06:31 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 8821 invoked from network); 4 Mar 2003 17:06:30 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO smtp6.wanadoo.nl) (194.134.35.177) by 172.16.49.205 with SMTP; 4 Mar 2003 17:06:30 -0000 Received: from steven.lr-s.tudelft.nl (3eea1768.cable.wanadoo.nl [62.234.23.104]) by smtp6.wanadoo.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E740871CE3; Tue, 4 Mar 2003 18:06:27 +0100 (CET) Subject: Re: Putting C++ code into gcc front end From: Steven Bosscher To: Richard.Earnshaw@arm.com Cc: Olivier Galibert , Gabriel Dos Reis , Rupert Wood , gcc@gcc.gnu.org In-Reply-To: <200303041445.h24Ejhb15458@pc960.cambridge.arm.com> References: <200303041445.h24Ejhb15458@pc960.cambridge.arm.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2003 17:17:00 -0000 Message-Id: <1046797590.760.1.camel@steven> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-SW-Source: 2003-03/txt/msg00225.txt.bz2 Op di 04-03-2003, om 15:45 schreef Richard Earnshaw: > > Is it reasonable in 2003 to have a quite complex compiler written in > > K&R C? Not even ISO C? > > The last time this came up (probably less than 6 months ago), the answer > was "yes". We've been round this discussion before. Let's not rehash all > the same old arguments again. I believe that the answer was: "Yes, because we have exactly one platform that does not come with an ISO C compiler (HPUX). We will look at this issue again in the 3.4 time frame". Greetz Steven