From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27793 invoked by alias); 4 Mar 2003 15:58:25 -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 27782 invoked from network); 4 Mar 2003 15:58:25 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO caip.rutgers.edu) (128.6.236.10) by 172.16.49.205 with SMTP; 4 Mar 2003 15:58:25 -0000 Received: (from ghazi@localhost) by caip.rutgers.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA17977; Tue, 4 Mar 2003 10:58:23 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2003 16:09:00 -0000 From: "Kaveh R. Ghazi" Message-Id: <200303041558.KAA17977@caip.rutgers.edu> To: galibert@pobox.com Subject: Re: Putting C++ code into gcc front end Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org References: <3E64C09A.9070500@comsys.se> <3E64C41C.1070303@comsys.se> <20030304104204.A27579@kerberos.ncsl.nist.gov> X-SW-Source: 2003-03/txt/msg00215.txt.bz2 Your information is slightly out of date: > The fortran library is written in atrociously mixed K&R/ISO C. I converted libf2c to ISO C as of gcc-3.3. > The C++ frontend is written in K&R C with gcc extensions (talk about perverted). The C++ frontend is (very slowly) being coverted to ISO C on the mainline sources for 3.4. > The java frontend is written in K&R C with maybe C++ in the future. > OG. I converted the java frontend to ISO C in the mainline sources for 3.4. --Kaveh -- Kaveh R. Ghazi ghazi@caip.rutgers.edu