Basile Starynkevitch wrote: > You forgot to mention plugins. In my understanding, any future GCC > plugin would necessarily be coded in C++ and be compiled by a C++ > compiler. Am I right?
Not necessarily. If we felt it desirable, the interface exposed for plug-ins could be C, not C++. However, I would expect it would be better to expose a C++ API. We'll have to see what consensus emerges on that point. (I do not feel that plug-ins should have full access to GCC's internals; I want to see a structured API that permits plug-ins access to a documented, stable interface.) > I would even imagine that later, one could configure GCC to have only a > C++ front-end, but no more a C one. I suppose, though thinking about that doesn't seem a great use of time at this point. -- Mark Mitchell CodeSourcery m...@codesourcery.com (650) 331-3385 x713