Re: Using C++ in GCC is OK

2010-05-30 Thread Eric Botcazou
> For example, I think it goes without question that at this point we are > limiting ourselves to C++98 (plus "long long" so that we have a 64-bit > integer type); Where does this "long long" requirement come from? We should only require an ISO C++98 compiler, just like we currently require only

Re: Using C++ in GCC is OK

2010-05-30 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 12:28 AM, Basile Starynkevitch wrote: > At last, there is a very important issue when switching to C++. What is > our "ideal" class hierarchy? The ideal class hierarchy is independent of the language used. The language matters only to the extend that it provides direct s

Re: Using C++ in GCC is OK

2010-05-30 Thread Basile Starynkevitch
On Sun, 2010-05-30 at 17:26 -0700, Mark Mitchell wrote: > I am pleased to report that the GCC Steering Committee and the FSF have > approved the use of C++ in GCC itself. [...] > > For example, I think it goes without question that at this point we are > limiting ourselves to C++98 (plus "long lon

Re: Using C++ in GCC is OK

2010-05-30 Thread Arnaud Lacombe
Hi, On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 10:03 PM, Robert Dewar wrote: > Mark Mitchell wrote: > >> Is there anyone who would like to volunteer to develop the C++ coding >> standards?  I think that this could be done as a Wiki page.  (If nobody >> volunteers, I will volunteer myself.)  Whoever ends up doing th

Re: Using C++ in GCC is OK

2010-05-30 Thread Robert Dewar
Mark Mitchell wrote: Is there anyone who would like to volunteer to develop the C++ coding standards? I think that this could be done as a Wiki page. (If nobody volunteers, I will volunteer myself.) Whoever ends up doing this, I would urge the rest of us not to spend too much time in the C++

Using C++ in GCC is OK

2010-05-30 Thread Mark Mitchell
I am pleased to report that the GCC Steering Committee and the FSF have approved the use of C++ in GCC itself. Of course, there's no reason for us to use C++ features just because we can. The goal is a better compiler for users, not a C++ code base for its own sake. Before we start to actually u

gcc-4.3-20100530 is now available

2010-05-30 Thread gccadmin
Snapshot gcc-4.3-20100530 is now available on ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/snapshots/4.3-20100530/ and on various mirrors, see http://gcc.gnu.org/mirrors.html for details. This snapshot has been generated from the GCC 4.3 SVN branch with the following options: svn://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc/branches

Problem with DTYPE ABI regarding long double vs. __float128

2010-05-30 Thread FX
Hi, While implementing __float128 support in gfortran, I came across what may be a very serious snag. The dtype in the array descriptor structure includes "sizeof(element_type)". As can be seen in libgfortran/libgfortran.h: > #define GFC_DTYPE_REAL_10 ((GFC_DTYPE_REAL << GFC_DTYPE_TYPE_SHIFT)

GCC 4.3.5 Released

2010-05-30 Thread Richard Guenther
The GNU Compiler Collection version 4.3.5 has been released. GCC 4.3.5 is a bug-fix release containing fixes for regressions and serious bugs in GCC 4.3.4. This release is available from the FTP servers listed at: http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html Please do not contact me directly regarding

GCC documentation in .info

2010-05-30 Thread christophe . jarry
Hello, I browsed your html documentation at http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/ and would like to know if there is a way to obtain GCC documentation in .info format from your website, as is proposed by almost all other software projects from GNU (see http://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/ fo

Re: Loops no longer vectorized

2010-05-30 Thread Ira Rosen
gcc-ow...@gcc.gnu.org wrote on 28/05/2010 03:52:30 PM: > Hi, > > I just noticed today that (implicit) loops of the kind > > xmin = minval(nodes(1,inductor_number(1:number_of_nodes))) > > (lines 5057 to 5062 of the polyhedron test induct.f90) are no longer > vectorized (the change occurre