Andrew Haley wrote:
Right, but I didn't think there was any plan to convert en masse to C++ -- just to allow people to use it where appropriate. Apart from anything else, there's always a nonzero probablility of breaking something.
It's the "where appropriate" that is the sneaky detail here :-)
I'll turn that into a question: does any GCC maintainer intend to convert working code into C++, with no substantive changes? Andrew.