From: Jeffrey A Law <law@cygnus.com>
To: "Martin v. Loewis" <martin@loewis.home.cs.tu-berlin.de>
Cc: shebs@apple.com, gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Whatever happened to -fembedded-cxx?
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 17:19:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <14419.953773815@upchuck> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200003222345.AAA01391@loewis.home.cs.tu-berlin.de>
In message < 200003222345.AAA01391@loewis.home.cs.tu-berlin.de >you write:
> I don't recall it ever being in egcs, so it must have been in Cygnus
> gcc.
That is correct.
> Well, I guess I can't say much more than has been said before, by
> other people and on other forums. EC++ does not do what it claims to
> do (in particular, the claim that it is a subset of standard C++),
> compilers don't (necessarily) perform the optimizations they are
> supposed to perform, and the selection of deleted features appears
> arbitrary considering the target audiencs. In particular, I fail to
> see why the removal of namespaces has any impact whatsoever on
> performance of target code; pretty much the same holds for the removal
> of templates.
This is the general reason why that code has never been contributed -- it's
never been clear that EC++ actually does what it is intended to do.
jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-03-22 17:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-03-22 14:20 Stan Shebs
2000-03-22 15:54 ` Martin v. Loewis
2000-03-22 17:19 ` Jeffrey A Law [this message]
2000-03-22 18:20 Mike Stump
2000-03-22 22:48 Shiv Shankar Ramakrishnan
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