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Re: Merging Apple's Objective-C 2.0 compiler changes
- From: David Edelsohn <dje dot gcc 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, richard dot guenther at gmail dot com
- Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 10:22:51 -0400
- Subject: Re: Merging Apple's Objective-C 2.0 compiler changes
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On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 6:33 PM, 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, I think it would be interesting to consider how Clang could
evolve into a portable C/C++(/ObjC/ObjC++) front-end that could be
used by LLVM and GCC (and other FOSS compilers) -- an alternative to
the EDG front-end.
- David