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Re: [Fwd: GCC2C compiler/converter]

Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com> writes:

> I assume it's the same one Alexey posted to this list in April,
> roughly.  It was shot down by the usual response to generating C code -
> because people did not want the FSF to appear to endorse the technique
> that Sun is using here, compiling code with GCC and again with Forte.
> 
> I personally think that argument holds no water now that someone is
> (quite legally) distributing the patched version.

I don't see why we would want to endorse the technique just because
someone is doing it.  If anything, we would want to condemn it even
more strongly, in the hope that they stop doing it.

-- 
- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org> <geoffk@redhat.com>
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