GCC Runtime Library Exception

[Ian Lance Taylor]

Sebastian Redl <sebastian.redl@getdesigned.at> writes:

> Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
>>   LLVM byte code is generated by LLVM, not gcc.  The question here is
>>   whether it is desirable to permit using LLVM to generate LLVM byte
>>   code and to then use GCC to turn that byte code into machine code.
>>   (It will not be desirable to apply the exception if GCC is someday
>>   used to generate LLVM byte code, nor if LLVM is someday used as an
>>   optimization plugin to GCC).  This question is hypothetical, as I
>>   don't know of any plans to create such a tool.
> Isn't llvm-gcc such a tool? It generates LLVM byte code, and it is, I'm
> pretty sure, a derivate of GCC.

I mean that there are, so far as I know, no plans to change GCC to
read LLVM byte code and produce assembler code.

Ian