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From: Mark Mielke <mark@mark.mielke.cc>
To: Larry McVoy <lm@work.bitmover.com>,
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On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 03:21:01PM -0800, Larry McVoy wrote:
> > I'd love to see a small - and fast - C compiler, and I'd be willing to
> > make kernel changes to make it work with it.  
> I can't offer any immediate help with this but I want the same thing.  At
> some point, we're planning on funding some extensions into GCC or whatever
> reasonable C compiler is around:
>     - associative arrays as a builtin type
>     - regular expressions
>     - tk bindings built in

What is the problem with C++ or objective C?

I doubt that the GCC people would accept these sort of additions, even
if complete.

mark

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