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Re: Criteria for GCC 4.0
On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 05:29:30PM -0400, Scott Robert Ladd wrote:
> But the kind of people who work for distro vendors have a specific range
> of experience and knowledge; that's no knock against them, just a fact.
> SuSE isn't going to hire a scientist who write research code; it isn't
> in SuSE's interest. I doubt SuSE would fund a developer who, say, went
> off trying to add an esoteric frontend to GCC, since that doesn't
> accomplish anything for SuSE.
But "an esoteric frontend to GCC" is not something that the bulk of users
are crying out for either. SuSE funded a lot of work on improving gcc for
x86-64, which is something that a lot of users I know are quite happy
about.