[Lightweight C++] News

[Stelios Xanthakis]

Hi.

The current development status of lwc is active.
Lots of important features like:

- dtors call dtors of parent classes as in C++
- posible to register classes for unwind without
  the use of gcc's "cleanup" attribute. lwc does not
  generate cleanup code for segments that may not throw.
   This is actually *marginally* faster than use of gcc's cleanup.
- exceptions throw a pointer.
- alias functions (using __attribute__(alias))
- improved auto-functions and better code generation.
- new-style varargs ("foo (int arg[...])" converted to
   "foo (int argv[], int argc)"


However, there is still work to be done for some other ideas
(like "strswitch" which will generate perfect hashing a-la gperf
for strings).
I haven't released the new version because I'm not sure if 
anybody's actually using lwc and it's better to keep it like this to
avoid the maintanance costs:)

If you're using lwc and need any of the above features/improvements, send 
e-mail to release tarballs.


Stelios