Merging Apple's Objective-C 2.0 compiler changes

[Diego Novillo]

On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 06:09, Richard Guenther
<richard.guenther@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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".

Indeed.  I would be interested to know what our C/C++ maintainers
think of this possibility.  Jason, Mark, Joseph?


Diego.