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Old 14th April 2011
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Originally Posted by rocket357 View Post
As long as there's a good clean separation between parsers and code generators (yes, that's an extreme oversimplification), a C++ frontend shouldn't really impact the architecture-specific code generators. Perhaps I've oversimplified to the point of overlooking issues, but my understanding is that keeping the frontend and backend as separate as possible (something that gcc does a piss-poor job of) alleviates these issues.
Didn't know GCC was more intentional about this, other wise I would've said, "Yes, if we're fortunate"
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