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Re: dragonegg in FSF gcc?
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 7:14 PM, Jack Howarth <howarth@bromo.med.uc.edu> wrote:
> ? I hope you don't think I was trolling in my initial post. Assuming
> plugins will eventually be welcomed into the FSF gcc source tree in
> general, there is a valid argument for having dragon-egg present with
> a configure option that builds it if the proper llvm is available.
There are already plugins in the FSF gcc source tree. Well, OK, just
one (lto-plugin) but there aren't very many plugins at the moment that
are suitable for inclusion in the FSF tree (i.e. not as tightly tied
to a GCC feature that GCC itself can't work fully without it).
IMHO the nature of the DragonEgg plugin makes it unsuitable for
inclusion in the FSF gcc source tree, ever.
Ciao!
Steven