[bitc-dev] why the switch to c++?

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 9:47 PM, Aleksi Nurmi <aleksi.nurmi at helsinki.fi>wrote:

> 2009/2/11 Jonathan S. Shapiro <shap at eros-os.com>:
> > The main things that we need in order to self-host the BitC compiler are:
> >
> > 1. An interface module for the libicu components that we rely on.
>
> Unless I'm mistaken, it seems that currently only two functions and
> two constants are used. If this is indeed the case, something as
> trivial as...


Yes. This could work, except that it would be useful to attempt a more
complete interface definition for unicode/uchar.h, respecting as much of the
type structure as possible. This is useful as a validation of BitC. It would
not surprise me if something very simple is missing.
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