From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Defending GCC considered futile Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 18:13:26 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20150207202952.1042BC00A6@snark.thyrsus.com> <87wq3rocqb.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <20150209172445.290dc20e@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> <20150211104229.2782cb00@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> <837fvo77dy.fsf@gnu.org> <20150211112941.148f783d@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1423696461 9632 80.91.229.3 (11 Feb 2015 23:14:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 23:14:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Perry E. Metzger" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 12 00:14:21 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 1YLgU8-0005H1-8f for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Feb 2015 00:14:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47386 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YLgU7-0001BY-IC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Feb 2015 18:14:19 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50315) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YLgTI-00086S-1T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Feb 2015 18:13:28 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YLgTH-0007xg-9k for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Feb 2015 18:13:27 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:35830) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YLgTH-0007xW-7j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Feb 2015 18:13:27 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YLgTG-0007qd-Hl; Wed, 11 Feb 2015 18:13:26 -0500 In-reply-to: <20150211112941.148f783d@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> (perry@piermont.com) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:182930 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > If this is the case, what is the problem with Emacs directly linking > against the GCC front end to get access to the C and C++ AST? I have nothing against that. On the other hand, it might be easier to run GCC in a child process, have it keep the AST inside it, and ask it questions about completion at any given point. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.