From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7936 invoked by alias); 29 Mar 2018 13:49:05 -0000 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 Received: (qmail 7142 invoked by uid 89); 29 Mar 2018 13:49:04 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=H*i:sk:CAHDABs, H*f:sk:bp4NjFd, H*f:sk:CAHDABs, H*i:sk:bp4NjFd X-HELO: mx1.redhat.com Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Thu, 29 Mar 2018 13:49:03 +0000 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx03.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.13]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 54359796F5; Thu, 29 Mar 2018 13:49:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost.localdomain (ovpn-112-22.rdu2.redhat.com [10.10.112.22]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F14B6A94D; Thu, 29 Mar 2018 13:48:59 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: GCC contribution To: Andre Groenewald , Katsunori Kumatani Cc: dmalcolm@redhat.com, avshash@hotmail.com, GCC Development References: From: Jeff Law Message-ID: <48399f59-8206-14ae-f78f-f18e1d3900f8@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2018 13:49:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2018-03/txt/msg00267.txt.bz2 On 03/29/2018 12:56 AM, Andre Groenewald wrote: > The heart of GCC should remain pure C as far as possible, for the very > same reason the Linux kernel is only in C. Deviate from this, and in a > few years we will end up with Java as the programming language of GCC. > > It is the duty of the steering community and our leaders in GCC to be > very conservative in this regard. > > Please I don't want to oppose someone’s proposal, I want the people to > understand reason of being conservative in this regard, because they > will end up being the leaders of GCC in the following generations. > > GCC steering community I count on you and speaking behalf other > developers to keep GCC as close to C as possible for at least the next > 1000 years. We've already made a decision to use C++ when it makes sense. That ship sailed years ago. jeff