On Sun, 22 Mar 2009, Steven Bosscher wrote: > On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 5:52 PM, Gabriel Dos Reis > <g...@integrable-solutions.net> wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Richard Kenner > > <ken...@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu> wrote: > >>> Yes, surely you have heard of stonewalling use of C++ to directly > >>> express some of the abstractions we use in the compiler. > >> > >> Those are hardly detailed technical issues, > > > > So, from your perspective, a request > > > > to use (a subset of) C++ for compiling GCC > > > > is hardly detailed technical issue. > > Well... The language to write your software in is not really a detail, > but it's certainly a technical issue. > > But anyway, is the official position of the FSF still "thou shall use > not C++"? That would mean GNU binutils is in violation with gold, no?
Probably people were clever enough not to ask the FSF about this ;) Richard.
