Merging Apple's Objective-C 2.0 compiler changes

Richard Guenther richard.guenther@gmail.com
Tue Sep 14 14:14:00 GMT 2010


On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 12:33 AM, Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com> wrote:
> Manuel López-Ibáñez <lopezibanez@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> In the same sense that adding clang->gcc means that there is less
>> motivation for developers to improve the current C/C++ FEs.
>
> From the perspective of gcc, I think the goal of clang->gcc would be to
> replace the current frontends entirely.

Yes, doing clang->gcc would get us the C family frontends disentanglement
from the middle-end "for free".

Richard.

> Ian
>



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