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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Meanwhile, it doesn't fix the one thing that's seriously wrong in C: the order of precedence of the bitwise operators.
Yes, that's the one thing that is wrong with C. Not the interchangeability of arrays and pointers; not null-terminated strings and buffer overflows; not the dangers of pointer arithmetic; not the many preprocessor and macro pitfalls. No, bitwise operator precedence is the one problem with C.