Re: Proposal: remove the Obj-C++ front end

2010-05-21 Thread IainS
On 21 May 2010, at 10:12, Richard Guenther wrote: On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 10:20 PM, Steven Bosscher > wrote: On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 9:54 PM, IainS > wrote: No Asbestos required - but .. I do have some observations.. I write pretty much all my serious (day-job) code in ObjC and.. ... I have

Re: Proposal: remove the Obj-C++ front end

2010-05-21 Thread Richard Guenther
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 10:20 PM, Steven Bosscher wrote: > On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 9:54 PM, IainS > wrote: >> No Asbestos required - but .. I do have some observations.. >> >>  I write pretty much all my serious (day-job) code in ObjC and.. >> ...  I have stated that it's an intention to make *t

Re: Proposal: remove the Obj-C++ front end

2010-05-20 Thread Steven Bosscher
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 10:20 PM, Basile Starynkevitch wrote: > On Thu, 2010-05-20 at 21:02 +0200, Steven Bosscher wrote: >> Hello, >> >> The Obj-C++ front end is effectively unmaintained, and has virtually >> no serious users. I propose to remove it from GCC. > > Maybe we could consider, for the

Re: Proposal: remove the Obj-C++ front end

2010-05-20 Thread Steven Bosscher
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 9:54 PM, IainS wrote: > No Asbestos required - but .. I do have some observations.. > >  I write pretty much all my serious (day-job) code in ObjC and.. > ...  I have stated that it's an intention to make *that*, at least work at > V2 on FSF. > > Having said that: > > a)  I

Re: Proposal: remove the Obj-C++ front end

2010-05-20 Thread Basile Starynkevitch
On Thu, 2010-05-20 at 21:02 +0200, Steven Bosscher wrote: > Hello, > > The Obj-C++ front end is effectively unmaintained, and has virtually > no serious users. I propose to remove it from GCC. Maybe we could consider, for the putative people wanting to maintain that frontend, to make it a plugin

Re: Proposal: remove the Obj-C++ front end

2010-05-20 Thread IainS
No Asbestos required - but .. I do have some observations.. I write pretty much all my serious (day-job) code in ObjC and.. ... I have stated that it's an intention to make *that*, at least work at V2 on FSF. Having said that: a) I have not anything like as much attachment to ObjC++ ... b