contribution 3

[Richard Henderson]

On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 07:07:03PM -0700, Alexey Starovoytov wrote:
> Please tell me what do you think.

I think there's no chance that this will ever be accepted.

The only use for this I can see is to have a proprietary
compiler use the GNU front ends to (1) parse languages that
the proprietary compiler can't handle or (2) parse GNU C
extensions common in free software or (3) avoid developing
a proper GCC machine description for a new processor or
(4) avoid contributing significant optimizations already
present in a vendor compiler.

All of which are goals we neither support nor facilitate.


r~