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Re: Announce - Thread safety annotations no longer supported in GCC
- From: Andrew Pinski <pinskia at gmail dot com>
- To: Diego Novillo <dnovillo at google dot com>
- Cc: gcc <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>, Delesley Hutchins <delesley at google dot com>, Ollie Wild <aaw at google dot com>, Le-Chun Wu <lcwu at google dot com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 08:15:39 -0700
- Subject: Re: Announce - Thread safety annotations no longer supported in GCC
- References: <CAFOgFcSO9NRXprgW+LxkcOCjttzGZiqyugwbLPbrLpQUqMkmHA@mail.gmail.com> <4F901DEA.1060401@google.com>
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 7:15 AM, Diego Novillo <dnovillo@google.com> wrote:
>
> We have decided to terminate the thread safety annotation project in
> GCC.
>
> The current implementation is in the branch google/main for those
> interested in using it. ÂWe will not be pursuing a merge into trunk.
> Instead, we have started implementing the same functionality in Clang.
What went into making this decision? I know lot of folks will almost
never go over to using clang since it means supporting one extra
front-end. I am thinking of the embedded folks here where they cannot
afford supporting something as new as clang for their customers.
Thanks,
Andrew Pinski
>
> I've updated the wiki page and moved the branch out of the active
> development branches in svn.html.
>
>
> Diego.