As I promised at the summit today, I have created the branch gcc-in-cxx (I originally said gcc-in-c++, but I decided that it was better to avoid possible meta-characters). The goal of this branch is to develop a version of gcc which is compiled with C++. Here are my presentation slides in PDF format: http://airs.com/ian/cxx-slides.pdf .
I have not yet committed any patches to the branch--at present it is just a copy of the trunk. I will start committing patches soon, and anybody else may submit patches as well. The branch will follow the usual gcc maintainership rules, except that any non-algorithmic maintainer may additionally approve or commit patches which permit compilation with C++. I have committed the appended patch to htdocs/svn.html. Ian
Index: svn.html =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/svn.html,v retrieving revision 1.86 diff -u -r1.86 svn.html --- svn.html 12 Jun 2008 14:22:37 -0000 1.86 +++ svn.html 18 Jun 2008 06:00:13 -0000 @@ -410,6 +410,14 @@ <code>[function-specific]</code> in the subject line. The branch is maintained by Michael Meissner.</dd> + <dt>gcc-in-cxx</dt> + <dd>This branch is for converting gcc to be written in C++. Patches + should be marked with the tag <code>[gcc-in-cxx]</code> in the + subject line. This branch operates under the general gcc + maintainership rules, except that any non-algorithmic maintainer is + additionally permitted to approve changes which permit compilation + with C++. The branch is maintained by Ian Lance Taylor.</dd> + </dl> <h4>Architecture-specific</h4>
