From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Perry E. Metzger" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2015 14:43:10 -0500 Message-ID: <20150118144310.1b81ba43@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> References: <54B1B97E.9070204@gmail.com> <87fvbhk4ha.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <54B456C8.6010506@gmail.com> <8761cbhvhb.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <54B5AA10.7080606@gmail.com> <54B6F8EF.7020401@gmail.com> <54B8326B.90804@gmail.com> <54B889CC.9030401@gmail.com> <19FB0015-E64B-4161-9BDE-BD6C41A9402F@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1421610207 18895 80.91.229.3 (18 Jan 2015 19:43:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2015 19:43:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Richard Stallman , emacs To: chad Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 18 20:43:26 2015 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 1YCvkr-0001bB-By for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 18 Jan 2015 20:43:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34509 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YCvkq-000722-Ka for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 18 Jan 2015 14:43:24 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58222) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YCvke-00071t-JO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Jan 2015 14:43:13 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YCvkd-0005cs-Dp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Jan 2015 14:43:12 -0500 Original-Received: from hacklheber.piermont.com ([2001:470:30:84:e276:63ff:fe62:3400]:60933) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YCvkd-0005ck-A7; Sun, 18 Jan 2015 14:43:11 -0500 Original-Received: from snark.cb.piermont.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hacklheber.piermont.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A70BB40A; Sun, 18 Jan 2015 14:43:10 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from jabberwock.cb.piermont.com (jabberwock.cb.piermont.com [10.160.2.107]) by snark.cb.piermont.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60EAC2DEB3C; Sun, 18 Jan 2015 14:43:10 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <19FB0015-E64B-4161-9BDE-BD6C41A9402F@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.10.1 (GTK+ 2.24.25; x86_64-apple-darwin14.0.0) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 2001:470:30:84:e276:63ff:fe62:3400 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:181411 Archived-At: On Sun, 18 Jan 2015 04:50:25 -0500 chad wrote: >=20 > > On 16 Jan 2015, at 15:21, Richard Stallman wrote: > >=20 > > What I am pretty sure of is that if the plug-in generates the AST > > as text, a GPL-covered program could write it into a file, and > > some separate proprietary program could read the file, and this > > would not be considered combining the two programs. It would be > > lawful, and could be quite harmful. >=20 > Isn=E2=80=99t this what dragonegg does (or did before it was abandoned for > lack of interest)?=20 >=20 > http://dragonegg.llvm.org dragonegg did indeed use the GCC front end together with the LLVM back end. Interest in the code waned when LLVM's own C/C++ front end became sufficiently robust. --=20 Perry E. Metzger perry@piermont.com