Re: [Tinycc-devel] c extensions

[Thomas Preud'homme]

Le dimanche 01 juin 2014, 00:01:06 mobi phil a écrit :
> 
> One of the reasons I put my project on hold is that lot of things are
> happening on the repo lot of code changes. Also I did not get clear
> feedback if I should care to stay in sync or fork, with other words such
> changes would be ever accepted upstream.

Hi (how should I call you? Is mobi fine?),

I'm sorry I didn't reply earlier and even more sorry that my answer will not 
be very satisfying to you. I am not enough familiar with C++ to realize how 
much complexity would be needed to handle the C++ constructs you want to add 
so I cannot really give you my opinions. At least, such constructs should not 
be available by default as one use case of tcc is to use it to quickly test 
(like in a commit hook) if a code is correct. I know tcc accepts some (all?) 
GNUism but C++ construct is too much I believe.

Also, given all the answers I've seen, I'm willing to believe that the 
required change would be to big. Besides, I'm not sure many people besides you 
would be interested in such a feature. So I think it's preferable if you keep 
it as a fork. If it turns out to be too difficult to maintain on the long term, 
we could maybe consider some kind of plugin mechanism so that your code would 
be a plugin enhancing tcc.

Best regards,

Thomas

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