http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52957
--- Comment #8 from Jonathan Wakely <redi at gcc dot gnu.org> 2012-04-14 12:24:47 UTC --- (In reply to comment #7) > It is not *technically* hard. Anyone that knows C and a bit of C++ can fix > hundreds (if you know C++ well and have a some experience with the C++ parser, There's the problem. I know C++ very well but don't know the front end well enough to work on it, and don't have time to learn it. My main problem is that everything is a void* so I have no idea what I can do with a given tree or what type it is, so I just try something, it compiles (because there's no type checking) so I run it then debug an ICE and continue by trial and error. That's not productive. The bottleneck is not the bureaucracy for me. > Indeed, but my point is that moving to C++ does little (in my opinion) to fix > the infrastructure issues in GCC: dejagnu is awful, the wiki is unmaintained, Why should the wiki be maintained? If people want to add to it they can, why should there be a maintainer?