On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 7:53 AM, Richard Biener
<richard.guent...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 1:49 PM, Diego Novillo <dnovi...@google.com> wrote:
>> On 2013-03-28 07:57 , Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
>>>
>>> Does gengetype works with inheritance now?  I could not
>>> find anything to that effect in the documentation.
>>>
>> No.  The plan is to get rid of gengtype by implementing manual markers
>> (http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/cxx-conversion/gc-alternatives). But those plans
>> are just plans for now.
>
> Eh - in fact you _promised_ to do that in trade for accepting the C++
> conversion!
> Never trust promises from google ... *sigh*
>
> Now we are in the exact situation I was feared about - people will start
> hacking around the C++ gengtype limitations in various ways instead of
> doing it properly (because "those plans are just plans").
>
> :/

I am all for getting rid or genotype if that is the long term plan.

Some of the work I was planning on the C++ front-end would
have benefited from inheritance.  Richard, I don't I am hacking
around C++ gengtype limitations.

-- Gaby

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