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Re: [09/nn] Add a fixed_size_mode_pod class
- From: Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou at adacore dot com>
- To: Trevor Saunders <tbsaunde at tbsaunde dot org>
- Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, Richard Biener <richard dot guenther at gmail dot com>, Richard Sandiford <richard dot sandiford at linaro dot org>
- Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2017 11:11:12 +0100
- Subject: Re: [09/nn] Add a fixed_size_mode_pod class
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- References: <87wp3mxgir.fsf@linaro.org> <3100781.Bqs18LrnqX@polaris> <20171030024142.g4padww3krzjgtmo@ball>
> It sounds like people are mostly concerned about sun studio and xlc? It
> doesn't seem that hard to provide precompiled binaries for those two
> platforms, and maybe 4.8 binaries for people who want to compile theire
> own gcc from source.
I'm not sure that we want to enter the business of precompiled binaries.
Moreover, if we want people to contribute to GCC's development, especially
occasionally to fix a couple of bugs, we need to make it easier to build the
compiler, not the other way around.
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Eric Botcazou