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
