Long term viability of GCC (was Re: gcc : c++11 : full support : eta?)

[Andrew Haley]

On 01/23/2013 07:38 PM, Diego Novillo wrote:

> Evolving this codebase is largely a thankless and difficult job.  It's
> technically interesting to me, but I know I can only do so much.

It's also worth pointing out that historically it's been very
difficult to persuade people to fund this.  Many companies want back-
ends for their chosen processor, but not many want to pay to
reorganize GCC itself, which would benefit every user.

Andrew.