Plans for Reno-2

The overall goal for the second phase of the GNU C++ Renovation Project is to bring GNU C++ to a new level of reliability, quality, and competitiveness. As particular elements of this strategy, we intend to:

1. Fully implement ANSI exception handling.
2. With the exception handling, add Runtime Type Identification (RTTI), if the ANSI committee adopts it into the standard.
3. Bring the compiler into closer compliance with the ARM and the draft ANSI standard, and document what points in the ARM we do not yet comply, or agree, with.
4. Add further support for the DWARF debugging format.
5. Finish the work to make the compiler compliant with ARM Section 12.6.2, initializing base classes in declaration order, rather than in the order that you specify them in a mem-initializer list.
6. Perform a full coverage analysis on the compiler, and weed out unused code, for a gain in performance and a reduction in the size of the compiler.
7. Further improve the multiple inheritance implementation in the compiler to make it cleaner and more complete.

As always, we encourage you to make suggestions and ask questions about GNU C++ as a whole, so we can be sure that the end of this project will bring a compiler that everyone will find essential for C++ and will meet the needs of the world's C++ community.