On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 08:20:05AM -0500, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: > The reason why I am mystified is that the people who seem to argue > that it would be pointless to convert the existing codebase to C++ seem > to be the same people who insist on seeing significant part of GCC > converted to C++ before we switch to *building* stage1 with a C++ compiler.
What is so puzzling about it? If we don't have a proof that what the GCC in C++ proponents are wanting is actually beneficial for GCC, then just switching building stage1 to C++ is not a step in the right direction, it removes options from those that build GCC or at least makes building GCC unnecessarily bigger hassle. If the switch followed by several conversions to C++ is done on a branch only and the merits are then judged afterwards, we don't do the problematic step on the trunk until it actually gives some benefits (if ever). Jakub