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Re: The GCC Mission Statement says nothing about conforming to international standards!?
- From: Robert Dewar <dewar at adacore dot com>
- To: icrashedtheinternet <icrashedtheinternet at gmail dot com>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2007 04:49:40 -0500
- Subject: Re: The GCC Mission Statement says nothing about conforming to international standards!?
- References: <d82c0ab70702030042l131a886alce5869ee678b0767@mail.gmail.com>
icrashedtheinternet wrote:
I just read the GCC Mission Statement and I see nothing there about
conforming to international standards for programming languages. Why
does the GCC Mission Statement not include conforming to
internationally accepted standards? Its very counterproductive not to
use standards.
Of course not including it in the mission statement does not mean
that it is not a requirement, so the last sentence is a bit of a
non-sequitur. To me, implementing C means implementing the standard,
and I think that this is the general approach of gcc, so it is not
entirely clear it should be explicit in the mission statement.
Ultimately the more important goal is to implement a widely
useable compiler, to the extent that includes following the
standard, that's what will happen.
-John Burak