On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Diego Novillo <dnovi...@google.com> wrote: > I will be sending 6 patches that implement all the changes we > have been making on the cxx-conversion branch. As described in > http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2012-08/msg00015.html, these patches > change the default bootstrap process so that stage 1 always > builds with a C++ compiler. > > Other than the bootstrap change, the patches make no functional > changes to the compiler. Everything should build as it does now > in trunk. > > I have split the merge in 6 main patches. I will send these > patches to the respective maintainers and gcc-patches. > Please remember that the patches conform to the new C++ coding > guidelines (http://gcc.gnu.org/codingconventions.html#Cxx_Conventions): > > 1- Configuration changes. > 2- Re-write of VEC. > 3- Re-write of gengtype to support C++ templates and > user-provided marking functions. > 4- New hash table class. > 5- Re-write double_int. > 6- Implement tree macros as inline functions so they can be > called from gdb. > > As discussed before, several of these patches do not fully change > the call sites to use the new APIs. We will do this change once > the branch has been merged into trunk. Otherwise, the branch > becomes a maintenance nightmare (despite not having changed many > caller sites we were already starting to run into maintenance > problems). > > For those who would like to build the conversion, you can either > checkout the branch from SVN > (svn://gcc.gnu.org/gcc/branches/cxx-conversion) or get the merged > trunk I have in the git repo (branch dnovillo/cxx-conversion). >
dnovillo/cxx-conversion git branch failed to bootstrap on Fedora 17 x86-64 when configured with --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,java,lto,objc,obj-c++,go I got /export/gnu/import/git/gcc-x32/gcc/objc/objc-act.c: In function \u2018tree_node* objc_build_constructor(tree, vec_t<constructor_elt_d>*)\u2019: /export/gnu/import/git/gcc-x32/gcc/objc/objc-act.c:3212:44: error: base operand of \u2018->\u2019 has non-pointer type \u2018constructor_elt_d\u2019 if (!VEC_index (constructor_elt, elts, 0)->index) -- H.J.
