dragonegg in FSF gcc?

[Robert Dewar]

Duncan Sands wrote:

> I hope it was clear from my email that by "gcc" I was talking about the gcc
> optimizers and code generators and not the gcc frontends.  If the dragonegg
> project shows that feeding the output of the gcc frontends into the LLVM
> optimizers and code generators results in better code, then gcc can always
> change to using the LLVM optimizers and code generators, resulting in a better
> compiler.  I don't see how this is gcc the compiler shooting itself in the foot.

Note that better code is just one aspect of compiler quality :-) One 
should be sure to make this judgment over a significant body of code,
and not just on some bogus benchmarks :-)