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Re: Adding zlib to GCC
>>>>> "Geoff" == Geoff Keating <geoffk@cygnus.com> writes:
Geoff> In practise, I find that it's always amazing how much you
Geoff> can stretch such things. Are front-end people really
Geoff> finding it difficult to work because of back-end bugs?
Yes. :-( And somtimes vice versa, I think.
It's certainly difficult to *release* front-end changes because of
back-end and other changes. People are talking about adding Ada and
Pascal to GCC. I've heard talk about C#. If all that happens, and
attendant libraries, I think it will be hard to keep the GCC release
cycle moving. If Java/Ada/C++ needs to spend 6 months retooling,
which might be perfectly reasonable, it seems like a shame to make
everything else wait for that.
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