https://www.baszerr.eu/ Wed, 06 May 2026 09:35:22 +0000 FeedCreator 1.8 https://www.baszerr.eu/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=wiki:dokuwiki.svg https://www.baszerr.eu/ https://www.baszerr.eu/doku.php?id=blog:2012:08:16:1 <h1 class="sectionedit1" id="g">2012.08.16 - g++</h1> <div class="level1"> <p> an interesting shift in course has been made – <a href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/12/08/15/1338212/gcc-switches-from-c-to-c" class="urlextern" title="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/12/08/15/1338212/gcc-switches-from-c-to-c" rel="ugc nofollow">GCC is switching to C++</a>. since next release <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU Compiler Collection" class="interwiki iw_wp" title="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU Compiler Collection">GCC</a> is going to be build with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C++" class="interwiki iw_wp" title="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C++">C++</a>. all of it. inline functions and templates are to be used for better type-safety. currently only some <a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/cxx-conversion#Background" class="urlextern" title="http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/cxx-conversion#Background" rel="ugc nofollow">basic C++ features are planned to be used</a> – i.e. GCC is not being rewritten from the scratch in OO way – C++ is going to make current code base easier to maintain. </p> <p> currently <a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/CppBuildStatus" class="urlextern" title="http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/CppBuildStatus" rel="ugc nofollow">all primary and secondary targets build fine</a>, as well as many others. an interesting fact to notice is that about 40% of all reports are done using non-x86* platform. because of that <a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2012-08/msg00015.html" class="urlextern" title="http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2012-08/msg00015.html" rel="ugc nofollow">cxx-conversion branch has been merged to GCC&#039;s trunk</a> (<a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/git/?p=gcc.git;a=commit;h=2b15d2ba7eb3a25dfb15a7300f4ee7a141ee8539" class="urlextern" title="http://gcc.gnu.org/git/?p=gcc.git;a=commit;h=2b15d2ba7eb3a25dfb15a7300f4ee7a141ee8539" rel="ugc nofollow">see the commit</a>). </p> </div> anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Tue, 15 Jun 2021 20:09:09 +0000