Re: [Tinycc-devel] modern c++ compiler written in C

[sylware]

On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 04:00:51PM -0300, Mario J. Rugiero wrote:
> I think you misunderstood OP's point.
> There is this issue: both GCC and CLang (the two major, FLOSS C++ compilers)
> will be written in C++ soon. CLang was already C++, and GCC is in the
> process of being ported to C++11. So, effectively, newer revisions of C++
> will only be built by compilers written in C++, as we use either a LLVM
> based compiler or GCC to build it, and this also applies to pretty much all
> of the more "traditional" languages, like Fortran and ADA.

Furthermore, I heard the c++11 and c++14 standardization body is adding more
and more complex features to those latter standards. That would imply a
bare/minimal c++ compiler/runtime is skyrocketting in complexity and size.

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Sylvain