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List:       gcc
Subject:    Re: Objective-C++
From:       Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer () dbai ! tuwien ! ac ! at>
Date:       2002-02-07 7:44:24
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On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Ziemowit Laski wrote:
>> While no final vote was taken, it seemed that the consensus the last
>> time this was discussed seemed to be that it would be better to wait
>> until the parser rewrite to integrate Objective C++, since we plan to
>> throw away the current C++ parser in favor of Mark Mitchell's rewrite,
>> meaning that if we integrate before that work is complete then we have
>> to do duplicate work.
> Yes, and that is a very reasonable approach.  However, what we (or at
> least I) haven't yet heard was the SC's official sanction of this idea

That probably just was a communications issue somewhere.

I believe the two only issues concerning Objective-C++ were the
parser-related one (that Joe mentioned) and whether it would make
the C++ frontend harder to maintain.

> (or a plausible timeline for its implementation). :)

As far as I understood, Mark/CodeSourcery would like to merge in the new
C++ parser after GCC 3.1 has branched, so that it should be available as
part of GCC 3.2.

Gerald
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Gerald "Jerry" pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/~pfeifer/


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