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Re: compiler tweak offered

From: Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at integrable-solutions dot net>
To: Zack Weinberg <zack at codesourcery dot com>
Cc: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>, "gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org" <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>
Date: 30 Aug 2002 21:26:11 +0200
Subject: Re: compiler tweak offered
Organization: Integrable Solutions
References: <200208300949.FAA19559@Sparkle.Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA> <31090000.1030726873@warlock.codesourcery.com> <20020830175642.GC1862@codesourcery.com>

Zack Weinberg <zack@codesourcery.com> writes:

[...]

|  Thus, if we say we won't
| implement extensions until they are added to Standard C, we're saying
| we will never again add extensions to C

Not quite so.  

We're the only C compiler implementors in the world.  And the original
poster is free to implement the extension and make it available to
other people for testing.

-- Gaby

References:
- Re: compiler tweak offered
  - From: der Mouse
- Re: compiler tweak offered
  - From: Mark Mitchell
- Re: compiler tweak offered
  - From: Zack Weinberg

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