From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11999 invoked by alias); 16 Jul 2009 02:25:12 -0000 Received: (qmail 11981 invoked by uid 22791); 16 Jul 2009 02:25:08 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mta4.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (HELO mta4.srv.hcvlny.cv.net) (167.206.4.199) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 16 Jul 2009 02:25:01 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.10] (ool-44c60ac6.dyn.optonline.net [68.198.10.198]) by mta4.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-8.04 (built Feb 28 2007)) with ESMTP id <0KMU00I4SS1IZDA0@mta4.srv.hcvlny.cv.net> for gcc@gcc.gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 22:24:54 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 02:25:00 -0000 From: Jerry Quinn Subject: Re: [gcc-in-cxx] zlib? In-reply-to: To: Ian Lance Taylor Cc: "gcc@gcc.gnu.org" Message-id: <1247711093.4098.368.camel@cerberus.qb5.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT References: <1247708793.4098.365.camel@cerberus.qb5.org> Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2009-07/txt/msg00298.txt.bz2 On Wed, 2009-07-15 at 19:07 -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > Jerry Quinn writes: > > > Hi. I started looking at what it would take to convert zlib to build > > with c++. > > The zlib library in gcc is actually a copy of upstream sources, so I > don't think it would be a good idea to make this change. We should stay > as close to the upstream source as possible. I figured this was probably the case, hence asking before I did too much work :-) It does mean that we will always have to have c++ and c available to bootstrap. Was one of the goals to remove the need for a host C compiler? Meanwhile, I'm working on libdecnumber... Jerry