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Old 9th November 2008
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Originally Posted by JMJ_coder View Post
I wouldn't be surprised in the least if every program in kernel and userland on a base *BSD system was written in C. But, what about ports/pkgsrc? Many of those programs are written in C++ or a combo of C/C++. I'm not saying it should be an immediate goal, but eventually it should be able to compile C++ code to be able to boot gcc (and its companion g++) from the base system.

And, if I read their website correctly, it compiles f77 code, which is much different from C than C++.
Yes, the kernel and user land is typically all in C, minus a few perl/shell scripts.

I'm still not understanding your desire for C++, it's an entirely different language...

Now, perhaps it's a lack of understanding.. but you do not need a C++ compiler to build either gcc or g++, GNU's C++ compiler is written in C.
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