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Re: GCC Runtime Library Exception
- From: Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>
- To: Sebastian Redl <sebastian dot redl at getdesigned dot at>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 12:51:34 -0800
- Subject: Re: GCC Runtime Library Exception
- References: <m3iqnwwqrl.fsf@google.com> <49835732.7000702@getdesigned.at>
Sebastian Redl <sebastian.redl@getdesigned.at> writes:
> Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
>> LLVM byte code is generated by LLVM, not gcc. The question here is
>> whether it is desirable to permit using LLVM to generate LLVM byte
>> code and to then use GCC to turn that byte code into machine code.
>> (It will not be desirable to apply the exception if GCC is someday
>> used to generate LLVM byte code, nor if LLVM is someday used as an
>> optimization plugin to GCC). This question is hypothetical, as I
>> don't know of any plans to create such a tool.
> Isn't llvm-gcc such a tool? It generates LLVM byte code, and it is, I'm
> pretty sure, a derivate of GCC.
I mean that there are, so far as I know, no plans to change GCC to
read LLVM byte code and produce assembler code.
Ian