From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12589 invoked by alias); 6 Mar 2003 07:53:23 -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 12582 invoked from network); 6 Mar 2003 07:53:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO kanga.comsys.se) (62.95.120.145) by 172.16.49.205 with SMTP; 6 Mar 2003 07:53:23 -0000 Received: from comsys.se (zeta.sys.energyx.se [192.168.0.39]) (authenticated (0 bits)) by localhost.0.168.192.in-addr.arpa (8.12.0.Beta19/8.12.0.Beta19/Debian 8.12.0.Beta19) with ESMTP id h267rLUr013234 for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 08:53:22 +0100 Message-ID: <3E66FE71.60201@comsys.se> Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2003 07:58:00 -0000 From: Lars Segerlund User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021226 Debian/1.2.1-9 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: Putting C++ code into gcc front end References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2003-03/txt/msg00396.txt.bz2 You can also lookat the speed of mozilla, people are using other browsers because it's SLOW , I'd hate to see gcc slow to a crawl :-( / Lars Segerlund. tm_gccmail@mail.kloo.net wrote: > On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Robert Dewar wrote: > ..snip... > > I personally think having parts of GCC written in C++ is a bad idea, > as it forces people to know Yet Another Language in addition to > C, shell scripts, sed, makefiles, etc. > > However, if this happens, you might consider looking at Mozilla's > C++ coding guidelines - they have experience with compiling with > many different C++ compilers on many different platforms. > > Here's the URL: > > http://www.mozilla.org/hacking/portable-cpp.html > > Toshi > > > >