Meta-Level Compilation project / Introspector/ AST access / Licensing question (PCH patch gengtype.c)

Tim Josling tej@melbpc.org.au
Sat Jun 22 18:41:00 GMT 2002


Daniel Berlin wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 23 Jun 2002, Tim Josling wrote:
> 
> > As an aside, the PCH patch introduced a change to gcc which provides a single
> > program with a complete *computer* *readable* description of the important gcc
> > data structures. This is then used to generate the garbage collection code.
> 
> Yes, but it's output is GPL'd.

Quite true, but the framework is there to generate non GPL code, technically
at least though IANAL.

Tim Josling



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