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Re: Progress on GCC plugins ?

From: Chris Lattner <clattner at apple dot com>
To: Robert Dewar <dewar at adacore dot com>
Cc: tromey at redhat dot com, Joe Buck <Joe dot Buck at synopsys dot COM>, Emmanuel Fleury <fleury at labri dot fr>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2007 09:34:21 -0800
Subject: Re: Progress on GCC plugins ?
References: <47317545.2070708@labri.fr> <20071107164101.GB4550@synopsys.com> <m37ikuroo2.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> <4731F5B6.7090404@adacore.com>

On Nov 7, 2007, at 9:28 AM, Robert Dewar wrote:

Tom Tromey wrote:

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.


It's not obvious to me that this is consistent with the GPL ..
interesting issue ...

Assuming these projects are "linking" it in, it just means the resulting compiler is also be GPL. That seems consistent.

-Chris

References:
- Progress on GCC plugins ?
  - From: Emmanuel Fleury
- Re: Progress on GCC plugins ?
  - From: Joe Buck
- Re: Progress on GCC plugins ?
  - From: Tom Tromey
- Re: Progress on GCC plugins ?
  - From: Robert Dewar

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