From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Barry OReilly Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 09:51:11 -0400 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=047d7b3a9cac4e08fb04f45503d0 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1394545871 4691 80.91.229.3 (11 Mar 2014 13:51:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 13:51:11 +0000 (UTC) To: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 11 14:51:20 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WNN5T-0001sc-Fs for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Mar 2014 14:51:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55099 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WNN5T-0003PH-2T for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Mar 2014 09:51:19 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45076) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WNN5Q-0003Og-80 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Mar 2014 09:51:16 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WNN5P-0001J4-Gu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Mar 2014 09:51:16 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-oa0-x22c.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4003:c02::22c]:40215) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WNN5M-0001Ib-T1; Tue, 11 Mar 2014 09:51:12 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-oa0-f44.google.com with SMTP id n16so8560894oag.3 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 2014 06:51:11 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=lLGFOkVHUHsUtdokHESVsb40sIMjHf39t7Q6o4UdsOw=; b=msy5vpU31FIT6yyEEdFhYkMqhHgKtsl6dQpIHKqB063OXiZsE91ET4YVJcRezRMnlv +0Ei9oLk3LJgybwPwwh+28JWaZjc51pFOKQcFc8q3q8DikavZQdpL4LNCqgUEAxYb8bu KyhtZSfn4TfTEWNyihuoHw72UT5hTmWFtULeLKPSgcUd4ondiX2Ibao23YC8epTaaoTF wefkaPBHiEPJn1eb68lMa/ipg8PJ9Qoqo5bfzmdgAy/eo+L/DKS9xaJ7Zn82xh8WMEiT duJJcqrG4TSReoMkeYPU7RovAPr49xpxouO0SQoOLXtBmCt/M4DX7HxkIA5LrOWFImkw Q3ww== X-Received: by 10.60.141.9 with SMTP id rk9mr29522820oeb.12.1394545871684; Tue, 11 Mar 2014 06:51:11 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.76.6.44 with HTTP; Tue, 11 Mar 2014 06:51:11 -0700 (PDT) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:4003:c02::22c X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:170278 Archived-At: --047d7b3a9cac4e08fb04f45503d0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Richard, The argument was made that at the present time, writers of proprietary compilers would choose to leverage Clang rather than GCC, even if GCC liberalized the availability of its AST. If this is true, then there is no longer political value to restrict GCC. You sound unconvinced that this describes the choices software proprietors would make. Would you expand more on that? --047d7b3a9cac4e08fb04f45503d0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
Richard,

The argument was made that at the present time, writers of proprietary
compilers would choose to leverage Clang rather than GCC, even if GCC
liberalized the availability of its AST. If this is true, then there
is no longer political value to restrict GCC. You sound unconvinced
that this describes the choices software proprietors would make. Would
you expand more on that?

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