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Re: Merging Apple's Objective-C 2.0 compiler changes
- From: Richard Guenther <richard dot guenther at gmail dot com>
- To: Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>
- Cc: Manuel López-Ibáñez <lopezibanez at gmail dot com>, Steven Bosscher <stevenb dot gcc at gmail dot com>, Jack Howarth <howarth at bromo dot med dot uc dot edu>, Paolo Bonzini <bonzini at gnu dot org>, Richard Kenner <kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu>, Joe dot Buck at synopsys dot com, clattner at apple dot com, dave dot korn dot cygwin at gmail dot com, gcc at gnu dot org, mikestump at comcast dot net, nicola dot pero at meta-innovation dot com
- Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 12:09:20 +0200
- Subject: Re: Merging Apple's Objective-C 2.0 compiler changes
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On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 12:33 AM, Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com> wrote:
> Manuel López-Ibáñez <lopezibanez@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> In the same sense that adding clang->gcc means that there is less
>> motivation for developers to improve the current C/C++ FEs.
>
> From the perspective of gcc, I think the goal of clang->gcc would be to
> replace the current frontends entirely.
Yes, doing clang->gcc would get us the C family frontends disentanglement
from the middle-end "for free".
Richard.
> Ian
>