"Steven Bosscher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

| On 3/12/07, Paolo Carlini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| > we are unavoidably
| > adding tree codes and we must solve the issue, one way or another.
| 
| Another real solution would perhaps be to not use 'tree' for front end
| specific data structures in C++, and instead just define g++ specific
| data structures to represent all the language details ;-)

that strickes me as a far better, long term solution; however, it
requires much larger efforts.  
Traditional, we tend to favor short term solutions... 

| G++ needs 64 (!) language specific tree codes, almost 7 times more
| than any other front end, and in total more than twice as many as all
| other front ends (java, ada, and objc)  together.

yet, some of us think it does not have enough ;-)

-- Gaby

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