Re: [Tinycc-devel] TinyC++

[Basile Starynkevitch]

On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 18:29:20 -0500
"Rick C. Hodgin" <address@hidden> wrote:

> Are there any plans for a TinyC++ compiler?

If you aim at compiling the full ISO C++, it cannot be tiny (because
the C++ language specification is large & bloated).

If you want some small & fast compiler, it could only parse a small subset of 
C++.

One could perhaps imagine using an existing C++ front-end, but that is
not tiny anymore.

For instance, one could imagine adapting tinyc to the output of the GCC
C++ front-end (e.g. to early Gimple or Generic in GCC parlance) but
that is not tiny anymore.

Cheers.
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