CGEN-generated files vs GPL

[Joseph S. Myers]

On Wed, 28 Jan 2009, DJ Delorie wrote:

> What are the implications (GPL-wise) of using CGEN-generated files in
> gcc?  Specifically, I'm working on a second attempt to contribute the
> MeP port, and its intrinsics are CGEN-generated (and there are a *lot*
> of them - most opcodes have an intrinsic).  I'd rather not have to
> manually enter all that info twice (there are VLIW tags, latency info,
> etc - for each intrinsic)

I believe the source code (i.e., what you'd change to modify the 
intrinsics) needs including in the GCC release tarballs.  I don't think 
CGEN itself needs including, any more than OCaml needs including because 
the ARM NEON intrinsic generators are written in OCaml.

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Joseph S. Myers
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