From: Zack Weinberg <zack@codesourcery.com>
To: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com>
Cc: "Kaveh R. Ghazi" <ghazi@caip.rutgers.edu>,
mark@codesourcery.com, gcc@gcc.gnu.org,
gdr@integrable-solutions.net
Subject: Re: Converting to ISO C89
Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2003 02:46:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d6k0h3cm.fsf@egil.codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <or8yuopmoo.fsf@free.redhat.lsd.ic.unicamp.br> (Alexandre Oliva's message of "05 Apr 2003 20:08:23 -0300")
Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com> writes:
> On Mar 25, 2003, "Kaveh R. Ghazi" <ghazi@caip.rutgers.edu> wrote:
>
>> IMHO once we've decided to require ISO C89 to bootstrap, we should
>> remove gcc-isms from the cp/ dir and compile cc1plus during stage1.
>> We can perhaps condition cc1plus during stage1 iff java is enabled.
>
>> Then java (and all other) frontends can use C++ wherever it makes
>> sense.
>
> It's not that simple, unfortunately. Without libstdc++, there's not
> much of C++ any language can possibly use.
This is true, but I think Kaveh's patches are worthwhile anyway.
> /me thinks if we're to use C++ in the compiler, it makes more sense to
> require a complete, functional C++ compiler upfront, and use it in all
> stages.
Or we could do as I suggested before and bootstrap *only* the C (and
Ada, if requested) compiler, then build the other front ends with
their runtime libraries.
zw
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-06 0:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-25 7:12 Mark Mitchell
2003-03-25 12:12 ` Gabriel Dos Reis
2003-03-25 17:38 ` Mark Mitchell
2003-03-25 18:25 ` Kaveh R. Ghazi
2003-03-25 20:38 ` Raja R Harinath
2003-03-25 21:55 ` Zack Weinberg
2003-03-25 22:02 ` Falk Hueffner
2003-03-25 22:17 ` Zack Weinberg
2003-03-25 22:25 ` Falk Hueffner
2003-03-26 9:19 ` Gabriel Dos Reis
2003-03-26 0:05 ` Joe Buck
2003-03-26 6:56 ` Zack Weinberg
2003-03-25 22:13 ` Raja R Harinath
2003-03-25 22:23 ` tm_gccmail
2003-03-25 22:26 ` Joe Buck
2003-03-25 22:40 ` Raja R Harinath
2003-03-26 8:49 ` Gabriel Dos Reis
2003-03-26 9:55 ` Zack Weinberg
2003-04-06 2:11 ` Alexandre Oliva
2003-04-06 2:46 ` Zack Weinberg [this message]
2003-04-06 2:47 ` Alexandre Oliva
2003-04-06 3:15 ` Kaveh R. Ghazi
2003-04-06 4:40 ` Geoff Keating
2003-04-06 16:23 ` Kaveh R. Ghazi
2003-03-30 12:45 ` Gabriel Dos Reis
2003-03-31 5:17 ` Mark Mitchell
2003-04-03 1:06 ` Zack Weinberg
2003-04-12 17:59 ` Gabriel Dos Reis
2003-04-12 18:06 ` Kaveh R. Ghazi
2003-04-10 15:31 ` Andrew Haley
2003-04-10 16:42 ` Mark Mitchell
2003-04-12 19:32 ` Gabriel Dos Reis
2003-04-14 11:21 ` Mark Mitchell
2003-04-14 12:57 ` Andrew Haley
2003-04-16 10:42 ` Andrew Haley
2003-04-16 17:25 ` Kaveh R. Ghazi
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