Re: A FrontEnd in C++?

[Daniel Berlin <dberlin@dberlin.org>]

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On Thu, 22 Aug 2002, [iso-8859-1] Pop Sébastian wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 02:50:47PM -0400, Daniel Berlin wrote:
> > > 
> > > P.S.: I even thought sometimes about (re)writing some of the optimizations
> > > in C++.  
> > 
> > I've actually started doing it many times.
> > In particular, i've still got the start of an interprocedural middle-end 
> > (IE takes trees from many modules) written in C++.
> > 
> > You can't believe how nice it is to just simply be able to do things like 
> > std::set<tree>, etc.
> > It seems trivial, but it's really a lot nicer to work with classes.
> > 
> 
> Why not beginning to write the AST optimizer in C++?

I was under the impression it would be rejected (IE never be accepted in 
the maniline), so i never took it further.
> 
> The AST optimizer is not needed for building the C, nor the C++ compiler,
> but once g++ is built we could build the AST optimizer.

Sure, I knew this, but I still felt it wouldn't be accepted because of the 
associated stigma writing non-C seems to have in the GCC development 
world.
:)