On 13-Feb-06, at 12:47 PM, Steve Simon wrote:
I want to understand but don't, what features of GCC are required?
C++, for better or for worse. Too much code (including most of what I have to work with) is C++. And although the language is a dog's breakfast, there are some important developments that have made it in there that aren't in C. Generics and language-supported polymorphism are both useful, particularly if your trade is providing users with extensible abstractions of hardware they can't understand well enough.
Paul
