GCC begins move to C++

GCC begins move to C++
[Development] Posted May 31, 2010 13:53 UTC (Mon) by corbet

It's now official: the GCC compiler is moving to a C++ implementation. "I am pleased to report that the GCC Steering Committee and the FSF have approved the use of C++ in GCC itself. Of course, there's no reason for us to use C++ features just because we can. The goal is a better compiler for users, not a C++ code base for its own sake." The next step is the bashing out of a set of C++ coding standards limiting the set of C++ language features which can be used.

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You don't appear to be bright - the link was for the quote which was information for you.
Jesus fucking Christ. I only quoted the link because there was no point in quoting the entire quote as well. My question was in what way the quote was related to the issue that order of precedence of bitwise operators is fucked up. Do you think you can understand that, now that I've spelled it out? Knobhead.