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Re: Merging Apple's Objective-C 2.0 compiler changes
On Sep 10, 2010, at 5:40 AM, Richard Kenner wrote:
> More seriously, the issue is copyright law. In order to write a
> front-end for GCC right now (or for a GCC front end to use another
> backend), you have to use a sufficient number of header files and
> interfaces of GCC that there's no question that it's a derived work
> from GCC and hence must have a compatible license.
Luckily, llvm and clang have a compatible license, so, we could have a llvm backend plugin, or a clang front-end plugin, if we want.