It has long been the case that gcc can only be compiled with gcc. Switching its 
impl. lang. to c++ doesn't make the porting problem any worse.

The other "industrial strength" open source c/c++ compiler clang/llvm is also 
written in c++.

They can both be built on windows so it would certainly be possible to port 
them to plan9 if there was real demand. 

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