Hello All, It seems that several Linux distributions are shipping a GCC 4.7 compiled by a C++ compiler (probably GCC).
This affects plugins makers, as has been already discussed. Do we have (e.g. for plugin makers) a nice way to know if a given GCC distribution was compiled in C or in C++ mode? For instance, compiling a helloworld.c with gcc -v don't tell anything about the way that GCC compiler has been built. (ie if it has C++ symbols or C ones in the executable, and knowing that is mandatory for plugins). Did we cross the C++ rubicon, in other words is GCC 4.8 scheduled to be compilable with a C compiler (not C++) for the C front-end and the middle-end and the x86_64/GNU/Linux back-end? [my imperfect understanding was that GCC 4.7 should have been compilable by either a standard C89 or a standard C++03 compiler, if not needing a Go or Ada front-end] When GCC won't be compilable any more by a C (not C++) compiler, should we make that a prominent & documented change? I believe it should also be reflected in our configure machinery (by rejecting the build of GCC when a C++ compiler is not available). Regards. -- Basile STARYNKEVITCH http://starynkevitch.net/Basile/ email: basile<at>starynkevitch<dot>net mobile: +33 6 8501 2359 8, rue de la Faiencerie, 92340 Bourg La Reine, France *** opinions {are only mine, sont seulement les miennes} ***
