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Re: Progress on GCC plugins ?
- From: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- To: Joe Buck <Joe dot Buck at synopsys dot COM>
- Cc: Emmanuel Fleury <fleury at labri dot fr>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2007 09:44:13 -0700
- Subject: Re: Progress on GCC plugins ?
- References: <47317545.2070708@labri.fr> <20071107164101.GB4550@synopsys.com>
- Reply-to: tromey at redhat dot com
>>>>> "Joe" == Joe Buck <Joe.Buck@synopsys.COM> writes:
Joe> On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 09:20:21AM +0100, Emmanuel Fleury wrote:
>> Is there any progress in the gcc-plugin project ?
Joe> Non-technical holdups. RMS is worried that this will make it too easy
Joe> to integrate proprietary code directly with GCC.
Joe> If proponents can come up with good arguments about how the plugin
Joe> project can be structured to avoid this risk, that would help.
First, aren't we already in this situation? There are at least 2
compilers out there that re-use parts of GCC by serializing trees and
then reading them into a different back end.
Second, how does the LTO project avoid this same worry?
Tom