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Re: Push GENERIC farther into C/C++ front ends.
- From: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Mike Stump <mrs at apple dot com>
- Cc: Steven Bosscher <s dot bosscher at student dot tudelft dot nl>, Andrew Pinski <pinskia at physics dot uc dot edu>,Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 12:51:15 -0700
- Subject: Re: Push GENERIC farther into C/C++ front ends.
- Organization: CodeSourcery, LLC
- References: <3A10099D-C615-11D8-B920-003065BDF310@apple.com>
Mike Stump wrote:
On Wednesday, June 16, 2004, at 08:20 AM, Mark Mitchell wrote:
As Gaby says, there are lots of people out there using other
approaches precisely because G++ can't be used in these ways.
Attracting those projects to G++ is part of what we should be trying
to do.
Well, with all due respect, if we want that market segment, we need a
SC/FSF direction change approval. Full in and out privs, ability to
vend libfrontend.a and so on. In the past, even when possible, we've
never paid much attention to their needs. Anything short of this I
think is just lip service.
I predicted at the GCC Summit that we would have no choice but to relax
some of these policies in order to remain competitive.
We will have to wait a few years to see if my prediction turns out to be
true or not...
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