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Re: Dumping RTL???

From: "Svein E. Seldal" <Svein dot Seldal at solidas dot com>
To: Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>
Cc: gyanindra mishra <gyana_m at hotmail dot com>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 00:13:26 +0100
Subject: Re: Dumping RTL???
References: <F87ANnYqKrlrKrKDd8I0001e4fa@hotmail.com> <15852.36575.646856.913642@cuddles.cambridge.redhat.com>

Andrew Haley wrote:

It's deliberate because we don't want someone to be able to use the
front end of gcc with an unfree back end.

Hmm... gcc is open source... A company like this could ""simply"" alter gcc to produce complete RTL output and then use their unfree backend anyways? Given that they release the gcc-patch-source, am I right? Or is this sceanrio merely academic?

Svein

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