Cytowanie Jonathan Wakely <jwakely.gcc@xxxxxxxxx>:
On 11 August 2014 11:45, <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I do not know GCC internals so I cannot estimate effort for such
modification. I thought that this will not be so hard, but looks that is is
not so easy.
"Make the C compiler have an option to act like the C++ compiler" is
basically an entire new language that is halfway between C and C++.
That's a huge amount of work and testing, which you're asking other
people to do because it is too difficult for you to fix your code.
It is not too difficult, it is time consuming. And we do not have much
free time now. Therefore I am looking for some temporary solutions to
make our code better. Now I see that my proposal is not very realistic
to implement from your point of view.
BTW, I realized that there may be an easier way to do such validation in GCC
- write information about each function prototype (found where function is
implemented) and each function call to object files (e.g. as debug data or
in other format), and use it to perform validation in linker. What do you
think about this?
That sounds more realistic (and would be useful to people using C, not
your suggested C-with-mangling) but I it's still many weeks of work by
many people, so you don't have to spend a month fixing your code. Even
if it happened, it wouldn't be available in released versions of GCC
and the linker for months, so it is not going to help you find "some
temporary solution to use now".
I know that you have to stick with your release plans, so this is not
something to expect soon. I understand this. What I am looking for are
things which I could use now; I thought there may be something in gcc
already to help me with my work now, so I asked here.
I also look for long term solutions which could be helpful for me and
for others, so I asked more questions. Sorry if I annoyed you.
Thank you for your answer. I will wait for some more feedback on my
last proposal about adding and using this extra info, and log and
enhancement.
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Regards,
Daniel
