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Re: Progress on GCC plugins ?
On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 12:02:44PM -0500, Richard Kenner wrote:
> As was said before, the difficultly in people working with GCC is
> primarily lack of adequate documentation. Creating a "plugin" interface
> is certainly much more fun than writing documentation, but doesn't help
> this issue nearly as much. Moreover, writing documentation is not a
> potential legal threat while plugins are. To me, that argues strongly
> against plugins and in favor of much more documentation.
More documentation: a good thing. Contributions welcome.
Plugins a potential legal threat: you must be using "legal threat" in some
strange way I don't understand, but I don't see them as a threat at all.
In any case, the two issues are orthogonal.