On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 06:09, Richard Guenther <richard.guent...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 12:33 AM, Ian Lance Taylor <i...@google.com> wrote: >> Manuel López-Ibáñez <lopeziba...@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.
