Re: Progress on GCC plugins ?

[Robert Dewar <dewar at adacore dot com>]

Brendon Costa wrote:
> > >     The concern is the many forms of shim layers that possibly could
> > > be written more easily with a plug-in framework.
> > there is also a difference in these two scenarios:
> >
> > 1. a) Company X writes a modification to GCC to generate special
> > intermediate stuff with format Y.
> >
> >   b) Company X writes propietary back end which can only
> > read format Y stuff written by that modification.
> >
> > 2. Same as 1, except that the GCC project does step a)
> > thus semi-standardizing the output.
> >
> > TO me it is pretty clear that these are very different
> > situations from a license point of view.
>
> I do exactly point 1 for my (Open Source) C++ exception static analysis
> tool:
> http://edoc.sourceforge.net/

Well assuming that your tool is GPL'ed there is no issue and
this is not a case of 1 above!