Re: Choice of languages

[Michael Vanecek <mike mjv com>]

With egcs melding back into gcc, these issues should become a thing of
the past here pretty soon anyway. However, I thought g++ was already
part of gcc. Is there anything wrong with it?

Mike


Fred Richardson wrote:
> 
> Actually, C++ is pretty well supported by EGCS.  In particular,
> template handling is quite good.  The current ANSI version of C++
> includes a spec for the STL.  C has no reasonable support for
> container structures (or generic programming for that matter).  But
> there is always casting void pointers and using lot of macros...
> 
> I imagine the real problem is that one wants gnome to compile on a
> variety of different systems without having the following
> prerequisite: `download and install EGCS if you don't have a
> reasonably good C++ compiler'.  On the other hand, that may not be a
> bad idea...
> 
>             -Fred