Hi,

Basile Starynkevitch <bas...@starynkevitch.net> skribis:

> My feeling is that the plugin ability of GCC should help academia to work 
> more on (that
> is, "inside") GCC, to only to use GCC.

Yes, except that, on one hand, they have a library stack with stable
APIs, and on the other, an otherwise quite stable API that GCC hackers
say “should not be used” by plug-ins.

This, together with LLVM being in fashion, tends to push “academia” away
from GCC, I think.

Thanks,
Ludo’.

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