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Re: EGCS as a component
- To: egcs at egcs dot cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: EGCS as a component
- From: Pieter Nagel <pnagel at tbs dot co dot za>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 20:51:51 +0200 (SAST)
On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Marc Espie wrote:
> In article <199901190156.RAA19886@atrus.synopsys.com> you write:
>
> >> There's gotta be a better way to organize the code, to enable tool
> >> writers to leverage the remarkably stable front-ends (C/C++ anyway) of
> >> egcs.
>
> >I'm afraid that's exactly what RMS is extremely worried about:
> >specifically, that proposed changes make it easier for *proprietary*
> >tools to use the gcc front ends or back ends.
This is a bit like cutting of your nose to spite your face, because
this hurts a huge class of potential open-source development tools as
well; tools which could benefit from a modularized GCC with
accessible API.
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