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Re: GCC 3.0 Release Criteria
- To: kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu
- Subject: Re: GCC 3.0 Release Criteria
- From: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>
- Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 09:03:37 -0700
- Cc: law at cygnus dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Organization: CodeSourcery, LLC
- References: <10004271207.AA07552@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu>
>>>>> "Richard" == Richard Kenner <kenner@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu> writes:
Richard> obstacks need to stay -- consider languages like Ada,
Richard> Pascal, Modula-3.
Richard> I've already gotten obstacks out of the Ada front end.
I'm glad to hear it!
Richard> I agree we can't remove them any time soon, but I think
Richard> we can in the not-too-distant future since if the
Richard> front-ends are being maintained at all, they can make
Richard> that change: it's not *that* much wor.
Good. Thank you for being a guinea pig; you seem to have confirmed
that it's not beyond the realm of possibility to make the cut-over --
even if you were not one of the original architects of the GC
machinery. That's good news.
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Mark Mitchell mark@codesourcery.com
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