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Re: Introduction of GCC improvement work for Itanium via Gelato Federation
Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> Do I understand correctly that the new backend is not planned to be
> included in FSF GCC?
That seems unlikely, in the medium-term, at least. Some people have
rasied legal issues, which I know nothing about, but the code has not
been assigned to the FSF. But, those are just details.
Certainly, this is a decision the Steering Committee would have to make,
and it hasn't been discussed. I think the SC would be hesitant to make
a partial switch for just a few architectures, and I think that, in the
near term, it's unlikely that support for all of GCC's architectures
will be present in any back end other than the FSF back end.
> Competition and exchange of ideas are always a good idea, though.
Indeed.
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