I've recently started my contributions to the gcc-in-cxx project, and eventually decided on the qsort suggestion because it seems the easiest one. I've made the change in three places in cp/classes.c; the patch can be found here:
http://code.google.com/p/ccppbrasil/wiki/GccInCxx Is this the way to go? Some questions occurred to me: in order to support a C and a C++ compiler at the same time, what "portability" mechanism should be used? #ifdef guards to switch between qsort and std::sort on the spot, based on __cplusplus? Should a helper function be declared somewhere? Also, std::sort requires a "less" function on reference-tovalue-type, so the current foo_cmp functions can't be reused. Would a separate patch to introduce foo_less variants be acceptable for GCC 4.5 right now? Also, is the gcc-in-cxx branch still active? Should my objective be to contribute patches to this branch? On a side note, I've studied vec.h and found it hard to change. One reason is because this header is included by the gen*.c stuff, which is still being compiled by a C compiler, even when building with a C++ compiler is enabled. I've considered providing a separate version of vec.h when C++ is being used, to avoid infinite #ifdefs. Is this a good idea? -- Pedro Lamarão
