Re: type based aliasing again

[Richard Stallman <rms at gnu dot org>]

    >What you repeatedly miss is that there are many many more
    >people that use gcc as the "free software install tool" than there are 
    >who actually write programs. 

    What you, and others, repeatedly miss is that GCC is a compiler,
    not a free-software install tool.

GCC is a compiler, and it is often run by users to compile programs
that they did not write and would not know how to maintain, as well
as by the people who are writing a program.

Speaking for the GNU Project, it is important for us that GCC support
those users well, in addition to supporting programmers well.  Please
consider good support for them to be *one of* the primary goals of GCC
development.