On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 5:52 PM, Gabriel Dos Reis <g...@integrable-solutions.net> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Richard Kenner > <ken...@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu> wrote: >>> Yes, surely you have heard of stonewalling use of C++ to directly >>> express some of the abstractions we use in the compiler. >> >> Those are hardly detailed technical issues, > > So, from your perspective, a request > > to use (a subset of) C++ for compiling GCC > > is hardly detailed technical issue.
Well... The language to write your software in is not really a detail, but it's certainly a technical issue. But anyway, is the official position of the FSF still "thou shall use not C++"? That would mean GNU binutils is in violation with gold, no? Ciao! Steven