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Re: GCC 3.0 Release Criteria
- To: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>
- Subject: Re: GCC 3.0 Release Criteria
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 21:30:52 -0600
- cc: geoffk at cygnus dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <20000426135512U.mitchell@codesourcery.com>you write:
> >>>>> "Geoff" == Geoff Keating <geoffk@cygnus.com> writes:
>
> Geoff> To get the full benefit, someone also needs to do Chill
> Geoff> (yuk). Then all the obstack-based stuff can go away.
>
> Good point.
>
> Or, we have to decide that if nobody is willing to do the work, then
> it is time for the Chill front-end is not going to be maintained. As
> I mentioned, I've seen little-to-no evidence of interest.
obstacks need to stay -- consider languages like Ada, Pascal, Modula-3.
There are languages out there we can't control and should not break unless
it's absolutely necessary.
jeff