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Re: [RFC] Replace Java with Go in default languages
- From: Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>
- To: Alec Teal <a dot teal at warwick dot ac dot uk>
- Cc: Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou at adacore dot com>, Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, Jeff Law <law at redhat dot com>
- Date: Sat, 09 Nov 2013 15:55:16 +0000
- Subject: Re: [RFC] Replace Java with Go in default languages
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On 11/09/2013 03:44 PM, Alec Teal wrote:
> If Java must go, and it must have a replacement Ada makes sense. The
> issues with Go (sadly, you guys are doing superb work) do make sense.
>
> I don't know enough about Java (the GCC front end and such) to know if
> it should go, if it does go why should it be replaced?
It always was very useful for detecting bugs in GCC: the code flow tends
to trigger bugs that don't get detected by the usual GCC testsuites.
Andrew.