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Converting GCC to C++

Converting GCC to C++
[Development] Posted Jun 18, 2008 14:12 UTC (Wed) by corbet

Ian Lance Taylor has announced the creation of a branch to explore the idea of converting the GCC code base from C to C++. He has also posted slides from a talk [PDF] on why he thinks this is a reasonable thing to do. In short, he thinks the change can help to simplify the code and make interfaces more robust while, with luck, avoiding the C++ language's worst problems.

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