RE: [Lightweight C++] News

[Ron Pinkas]

Stelios,
 
> > Any chance I can convince you to directly support Windows, with 
> > compilers like LCC or preferably Pelle's C?
> >
> 
> Well, we *definitelly* need "statements in expressions" and 
> some way to specify linkonce sections for the linker. Plain
> C99 is unfortunatelly not enough to compile the code 
> generated by lwc. We'd also need alloca and constructor sections.

Could you kindly provide more info on the above? Pelle is a good friend of
mine, and is usually VERY responsive. :-)

> So why not mingw?

I'm commited to Pelle's C for many reasons, which may be difficult to
explain. :-)

> I like the lcc effort and I think that implementing gcc's 
> extensions would be *good* for lcc.  This sounds like I'm 
> throwing the ball at the lcc camp:), but, really, we need 
> some standards on the C extensions (which are unlikely to be 
> standarized by an organization in the next 3 years).
> Those standards at the time are GNUC, for no other reason but 
> that gcc happens to be free and of great quality.

If you provide more specific details, I'll do my best to get such extensions
implemented in Pelle's C.

> I promise to try to turn my windows box into a development 
> platform though:)

Many thanks. :-)

Ron