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Re: gccgo: A gcc frontend for Go, a new programming language



On Nov 11, 2009, at 12:43 PM, Joe Buck wrote:



They weren't intended as a way of attaching complete new front ends
or complete new back ends. That was the thing that RMS feared the most,
and he had at least some justification: would we have a C++ compiler or
an Objective-C compiler if the companies who employed the original authors
had the alternative of hooking into GCC without contributing their code?
There's some evidence that they would not have.

I thought it *was* a goal to allow attaching new (GPL3 compatible) backends?


-Chris


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