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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

Quoting Treeve Jelbert <treeve01 AT pi.be>:
> In the past it was suggested (by Hamish?), that gcc should be split into a 
> series of front-ends.

Me. ;)

> The new release of gcc might be a good time to do this.
> 
> we could have gcc-c, gcc-ada, gcc-f77, gcc-pascal, gcc-java, etc

Also gcc-cpp or gcc-c++.
 
> gcc-c would include C and C++ and be part of the base system. everyting else

If we're going to separate it out, we should also separate C and C++ as some 
may
want one without the other, though I believe most of our system needs C/C++, 
so
there may be no point.
 
> would be optional.  We would need to track down all the spells which depend 
> on any of these and update their DEPENDS accordingly.

Only a few actually depend on something besides C/C++, so this should be easy.
 
> Doing this, we could even have gcc-c at 3.3.2 and gcc-f77 at 3.4?

I don't believe mixing versions is a Good Idea(tm).
 
> Any thoughts?



> Regards,  Treeve 

-sandalle

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