GCC itself will use C++

It’s been announced on their mailing list that a subset of C++ will be allowed in the implementation of GCC itself.

In general, I think they’re doing the right thing. The only concern I have is, by doing so, whether they’re making bootstrapping or porting more complicated, which I will probably be doing frequently. Are they still going to allow bootstrapping on a system with only a C compiler, or are they assuming a C++ compiler is nowadays as fundamental as a C compiler?

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