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Re: Progress on GCC plugins ?
- From: Brendon Costa <bcosta at avdat dot com dot au>
- 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: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 10:55:39 +1100
- Subject: Re: Progress on GCC plugins ?
- References: <47317545.2070708@labri.fr> <20071107164101.GB4550@synopsys.com>
Joe Buck wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 09:20:21AM +0100, Emmanuel Fleury wrote:
>> Is there any progress in the gcc-plugin project ?
>
> Non-technical holdups. RMS is worried that this will make it too easy
> to integrate proprietary code directly with GCC.
>
> If proponents can come up with good arguments about how the plugin
> project can be structured to avoid this risk, that would help.
>
Is there anything that still needs to be done on the technical side at
all like testing or development? I am willing to help out a bit. I
have an interest in seeing this in a future release :-)
Thanks,
Brendon.