On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 8:12 PM, Ian Lance Taylor <i...@google.com> wrote: > Timothy Madden <terminato...@gmail.com> writes: > >> On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 2:24 AM, Ian Lance Taylor <i...@google.com> wrote: >>> Timothy Madden <terminato...@gmail.com> writes: >>> >>>> Why is it so hard to store template definitions (and the set of >>>> symbols visible to them) in an >>>> object file, probably as a representation of the parsed template source >>>> tree ? >>> >>> I recommend reading "Why We Can't Afford Export." >> >> I have seen that paper in the link, N1426, and I find it to be biased >> against export ... > > It may be biased, but I think it does a nice job of explaining why it > is so hard to store template definitions and the set of symbols > visible to them. No, it only scares people off the subject ...
So nobody here wants to try a big thing ? :( How long would it take for someone to understand how parsing works in g++ ? Or to understand the build system in gcc ? Thank you, Timothy Madden