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Re: GCC 4.4.0 Status Report (2009-03-13)
- From: kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu (Richard Kenner)
- To: gdr at integrable-solutions dot net
- Cc: Joe dot Buck at synopsys dot com, bonzini at gnu dot org, dave dot korn dot cygwin at googlemail dot com, dberlin at dberlin dot org, dje dot gcc at gmail dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, law at redhat dot com, mark at codesourcery dot com, rguenther at suse dot de, stevenb dot gcc at gmail dot com
- Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 12:54:39 EDT
- Subject: Re: GCC 4.4.0 Status Report (2009-03-13)
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> Yes, surely you have heard of stonewalling use of C++ to directly
> express some of the abstractions we use in the compiler.
Those are hardly detailed technical issues, but relate directly to the
funamental development philosphy of the GNU project, which is
something that the FSF clearly has the prerogative to do.