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Re: EGCS as a component
- To: egcs at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: EGCS as a component
- From: David Starner <dstarner98 at aasaa dot ofe dot org>
- Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 00:20:14 -0600
- Organization: SLUG
- References: <199901190156.RAA19886@atrus.synopsys.com>
Joe Buck wrote:
>
> > There's gotta be a better way to organize the code, to enable tool
> > writers to leverage the remarkably stable front-ends (C/C++ anyway) of
> > egcs.
>
> I'm afraid that's exactly what RMS is extremely worried about:
> specifically, that proposed changes make it easier for *proprietary*
> tools to use the gcc front ends or back ends.
It's been done before - SRC Modula-3 used what I would guess was a
back-end-interface style front-end to gcc and wrote its own proprietary
Modula-3 front end.
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David Starner - dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org
"Repent, Harlequin", said the Ticktock man.