optimizing egcs for alpha

[Jiann-Ming Su]

On Thu, 25 Mar 1999, Richard Henderson wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 24, 1999 at 04:16:31PM -0600, Jiann-Ming Su forwarded:
> > > If gcc/egcs had a more modern design(like, shudder, MSVC) then
> > > it would be relatively easy to slot in the GEM back end.  
> > > 
> > > Aaron Spink
> > > not speaking for Compaq
> 
> Erum, but we don't _want_ to just "slot in" the GEM back end,
> even if the design of gcc allowed it.
> 

Ok, I'll bite.  Why not? 

Jiann-Ming Su                   "People seldom do what they believe in. They do
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