GCC Moving To Use C++ Instead of C

An anonymous reader writes "CodeSourcery's Mark Mitchell wrote to the GCC mailing list yesterday reporting 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.' Still undecided is what subset of C++ to use, as many contributors are experts in C, but novices in C++; there is a call for a volunteer to develop the C++ coding standards."pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fdevelopers.slashdot.org% 2Fstory%2F10%2F06%2F01%2F0245259%2FGCC-Moving-To-Use-C-Instead-of-C" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=GCC+Moving+To+Use+C%2B%2B+Instead+of+C %3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2Fd6dDdH" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/10/06/01/0245259/GCC-Moving-To-Use-C-Instead-of-C?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/shbo_mJQoil1TjrhvCSTArCuu_s/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/shbo_mJQoil1TjrhvCSTArCuu_s/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/shbo_mJQoil1TjrhvCSTArCuu_s/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/shbo_mJQoil1TjrhvCSTArCuu_s/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/r08En_vaMLc" height="1" width="1"/

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