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Re: Source code of CIL back-end
- From: Joe Buck <Joe dot Buck at synopsys dot COM>
- To: Roberto COSTA <roberto dot costa at st dot com>
- Cc: GCC mailing list <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 19:32:24 -0700
- Subject: Re: Source code of CIL back-end
- References: <449A67B9.6000501@st.com>
On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 11:49:45AM +0200, Roberto COSTA wrote:
> By the way, is there any news about the status of the CIL issue?
> I'm sorry to bother the list readers about this, but whom could I
> directly ask?
Sorry for the delay in answering, Robert. I was out of town, and
apparently people thought I'd post the answer on this one, since I
brought up the topic for SC discussion.
The SC discussed it with Richard Stallman, and he agrees that it is not
"dangerous" (the FSF had raised objections to byte-code systems in the
past, so many of us assumed there would be a problem). So there is no
political/legal objection to including a CIL back end. If it passes
technical review, it can be included.