On 13 May 2001, at 17:20, Jim Starkey wrote:

> The gating factor to progress is re-establishing maintainability
> of the code base. This requires two things. First, a switch
> from C to C++ (fixing the threading requires first fixing
> exception handling, which requires C++).

Would this help ?

GCC 3.0 Status Report

http://news.linuxprogramming.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05-15-001-06-LT

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