Paolo Carlini <paolo.carl...@oracle.com> writes: > On 01/30/2010 01:14 AM, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: >> I don't think you need to understand the build system to implement >> export in C++. You do clearly need to understand the g++ frontend. >> However, it's impossible for me to estimate how long it would take >> somebody to understand it. It would depend greatly on that person's >> experience as a programmer and knowledge of C++. gcc's C++ frontend >> is probably some 150,000 lines of code, considering everything. >> > Even for implementors knowing *very* well both the details of the C++ > standard and the internals of a specific front-end, implementing export > is an *highly* non-trivial task. You can probably find this paper useful: > > http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2003/n1426.pdf
I already tried to tell him that upthread. Ian
