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Re: gcc extensibility

On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 11:42:30 -0500
Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr@integrable-solutions.net> wrote:
> I suspect that if plugins people want to make progress on this
> recurring theme, they
> will have to come up with a specification and an API.  Otherwise, they have only
> themselves to blame if their plugins break from release to release.


They blame nobody if their plugins break from one release to the next. They take this
incompatibility of GCC as part of their plugins developer's work.

Again, a plugin writer by definition uses whatever interface is given to him.

Cheers.


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