On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 12:36 PM, Brian Dessent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Simon Hill wrote: > >> http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gccint/index.html. (Of course I was >> horrified to see it's not written in C++, and it's loaded with macros >> --- why??). > > You seem to refer to g++ as if it's a separate program from gcc but it's > really not. All of the middle- and back-end code is shared between the > language front-ends, so if you introduce C++ there you now require a > pre-existing C++ bootstrap compiler even for people that have no > interest or need for C++ language support and are only building a C (or > Fortran or Java or Ada) compiler. A lot of people have a problem with
I think java requires c++.
