On Thu, Mar 16, 2023 at 01:58:57PM +0100, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> On Thu, 2023-03-16 at 10:28 +0100, Thomas Schwinge wrote:
> > I'm now also putting Mark Wielaard in CC; he once also started discussing
> > this topic, "thinking of importing a couple of gnulib modules to help
> > with UTF-8 processing [unless] other gcc frontends handle [these things]
> > already in a way that might be reusable". See the thread starting at
> > <https://inbox.sourceware.org/gcc/ypqrmbhyu3wrp...@wildebeest.org>
> > "rust frontend and UTF-8/unicode processing/properties".
>
> Thanks. BTW. I am not currently working on this.
> Note the responses in the above thread by Ian and Jason who pointed out
> that some of the requirements of the gccrs frontend might be covered in
> the go frontend and libcpp, but not really in a reusable way.
libcpp can be certainly linked into the gccrs FE and specific functions
called from it even if libcpp isn't used as a preprocessor for the language.
Small changes to libcpp are obviously possible as well to make it work.
Jakub
