GCC Moving To Use C++ Instead of C

An anonymous reader writes "CodeSourcery's Mark Mitchell wrote to the GCC mailing list yesterday reporting that 'the GCC Steering Committee and the FSF have approved the use of C++ in GCC itself. Of course, there's no reason for us to use C++ features just because we can. The goal is a better compiler for users, not a C++ code base for its own sake.' Still undecided is what subset of C++ to use, as many contributors are experts in C, but novices in C++; there is a call for a volunteer to develop the C++ coding standards."

Great

[jimmydevice]

We have to pick through the preprocessor output to find the broken bits.

Out of the ashes and into C++

[trialcode]

Great idea! This will surely help steal back users from LLVM/clang. The reason people are jumping ship is because they want a compiler written in C++, it has nothing to do with performance, licenses and/or features. Just thinking about those crunchy templates, page up and page down, makes my mouth water. I can't even begin to comprehend how they ever got anything done without templates.

The devs don't know C++?? Its a C++ compiler!

[Viol8]

Are they seriously trying to suggest that the people who work on developing and maintaining a C++ compiler are novices in C++??

Sorry , am I missing something here?

Great ! Another printout to burn

[abies]

Looking at the GNU Coding Standard [gnu.org] which is used for gcc, whatever 'best practices' and style guideline they come with will make a good fireplace material [kernel.org] ...

C++ flame wars

[o'reor]

starting in 3... 2... 1...

Here's somme ammo from bash.org [69.61.106.93]:

Phil: C++ is java's uncle that never comes to visit, and had half his face blown off when he stepped on a landmine, also he's a pedophile.
Phil: But he's the industry standard.
David: and runs much faster
Phil: He has to be able to run fast, he's a pedophile.

Re:Seems odd...

[Anonymous Coward]

now I'd like to see the graph of what was used to compile each compiler, until the first one written at hand on perforated cards, programmed for abacus in the classical ages

Re:What...

[josgeluk]

Quis compilabit ipsos compilatores?

ecco, tibi fixi .

Re:The devs don't know C++?? Its a C++ compiler!

[dgriff]

Are they seriously trying to suggest that the people who work on developing and maintaining a C++ compiler are novices in C++??

Car analogy time! You can be an expert car mechanic without knowing how to drive.

I'll get me coat...

Re:80's technology

[Narishma]

Yeah, exactly. I don't understand why they didn't chose something modern like Ajax.

Re:Seems odd...

[FlyingBishop]

With the nodes that insert a backdoor into the unix login program colored red.

Re:so now I can't grep for functions

[Joce640k]

Ummm... just right click the function name and select "Find all references" from the popup menu.

Re:What...

[Anonymous Coward]

is this on topic because it's also in a dead language?

Re:Seems odd...

[ixache]

So you're saying that this "Grace Hopper" character, far from being the role model for (female) programmers that the official history posits, was actually a spawn of the devil, the mother of the business programming scourge?

And by the way, what kind of name is "Grace Hopper"? A thinly veiled reference to the Plague of Locusts, I tell you! Isn't that definitive proof? Brace yourself, Jiminy!

Re:As everyone forgot EGCS vs GCC back in Linux 2.

[grub]

I have a Caldera OpenLinux T-shirt from back in the day. I still wear it around once a week

You wear it on those days you want to get laid, eh? :)

Re:What...

[Anonymous Coward]

Yo dawg.... I heard you like to compile compliers, so I compiled a compiler with your compiler.

Re:Seems odd...

[Anonymous Coward]

If your backdoor is red after insertion, you should have used a better lubricant.

Re:Seems odd...

[nacturation]

The English language, being the whore that it is, pretty much allows you to make any word or phrase mean anything over time, as long as you use the generally accepted meaning at the time.

For all intensive purposes, I could care less.