On Nov 11, 2009, at 12:43 PM, Joe Buck wrote:
They weren't intended as a way of attaching complete new front ends
or complete new back ends. That was the thing that RMS feared the
most,
and he had at least some justification: would we have a C++ compiler
or
an Objective-C compiler if the companies who employed the original
authors
had the alternative of hooking into GCC without contributing their
code?
There's some evidence that they would not have.
I thought it *was* a goal to allow attaching new (GPL3 compatible)
backends?
-Chris
