"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