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Re: Patches to 2.95.2 for CenterLine on Sparc
- To: law at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: Patches to 2.95.2 for CenterLine on Sparc
- From: kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu (Richard Kenner)
- Date: Sat, 1 Jan 00 20:19:55 EST
- Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
No, we made a decision a year or two ago that the language subdirs
only need to be compiled with GCC.
I'm not disagreeing with that, but merely saying that if it's easy
to keep them compilable with other compilers (e.g., somebody already
has the patch to do it), it seems worthwhile unless there's an
offsetting reason not to.
If a change to support a vendor compiler has other merits then we
should consider installing it. If such a change merely works around
lameness in some vendor compiler and provides no other benefit, then
we should not install them.
That's exactly what I said for the language subdirs. My understanding
(perhaps faultly) was that this patch was more general and not aimed at
a specific restriction in some vendor compiler. Of course, for the core
compiler, we never have this luxury.