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Re: Progress on GCC plugins ?

From: David Edelsohn <dje at watson dot ibm dot com>
To: "Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
Cc: "'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, 07 Nov 2007 12:52:19 -0500
Subject: Re: Progress on GCC plugins ?
References: <47317545.2070708@labri.fr> <20071107164101.GB4550@synopsys.com> <003701c82166$5a53c7c0$2e08a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM>

>>>>> Dave Korn writes:

Dave> I don't understand: why wouldn't designing it so that they have to be
Dave> implemented as DSOs and hence are covered by the
Dave> anything-directly-linked-in-is-GPL'd clause do the job?  Or is the concern
Dave> that people will write trivial marshalling plugins and ship all the data out
Dave> across a pipe or socket to some proprietary code and then only release source
Dave> for their shim layers?

	The concern is the many forms of shim layers that possibly could
be written more easily with a plug-in framework.

David

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References:
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  - From: Emmanuel Fleury
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  - From: Joe Buck
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