Troublesome.

[kickaha]

It's not that my current project to graduate is driving me insane.

It's not that it'll be a steaming pile of poo by the time I'm done with it, but (barely) functional.

It's not even that I chose perhaps the hardest possible route I could have to get done.



It's that in a few weeks when gcc4.0 comes out, all this work will have been wasted.

*whimper*

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[jason0x21.livejournal.com]

Wasted? Do tell!

[kickaha.livejournal.com]

I'm analyzing the gcc 3.3 dump tree.

gcc4 will have a radically changed internal representation. I'll be damned lucky if it looks anything like what I've spent the last year working on.

[jason0x21.livejournal.com]

They might make the whole thing more easier?

[kickaha.livejournal.com]

Maaaaaaaaybe. I can only hope that the improved template support will make the internals cleaner, because god knows that's what's been making me pull my hair out.

And whoever heard of using a record_type node to store a function pointer?? Insanity, I tell you.

NOT IMPORTANT

[kimokeane.livejournal.com]

Remember, that to graduate, you DON'T have to use code that is up-to-date. You just have to have code that WORKED.
DO NOT worry about this, or spend one minute even figuring out what gcc4 is going to offer - you don't have time! Take it from A Man Who Knows - you need to duck your head down and steam ahead, damn the torpedoes, slings and arrows.

Re: NOT IMPORTANT

[kickaha.livejournal.com]

Oh I know. It's still just a darned shame.

Re: NOT IMPORTANT

[curvyart.livejournal.com]

he's right, you know. your goal is to make a prototype, not a market-ready product. prototype != support for current compiler versions

Re: NOT IMPORTANT

[kickaha.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but the amount of work it's taken to support just C++, even as a prototype, has been insane. Sad to see it probably have to all be ditched later.

Yup, should have gone the parser route. *sigh*

[arthane.livejournal.com]

There's only one logical solution. We must prevent gcc4 from being released! *cue Impossible Mission music*

[kickaha.livejournal.com]

You know, a few months ago that seemed like it would have happened anyway. :D