On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 2:01 AM, Ian Lance Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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, personally, think this would be a great step forward from a maintainability perspective, especially if we use those C++ features that can help eliminate many of the macros we currently have in GCC. The first step seems to be to make sure that GCC compiles as C++ now (I know there's been work in this direction), and for us to make sure that this property is maintained in the mainline compiler. The C++ front end would be a good place to start moving toward C++. - Doug
