From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 33684 invoked by alias); 30 Oct 2017 10:11:18 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-patches-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-patches-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 33667 invoked by uid 89); 30 Oct 2017 10:11:18 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=H*r:sk:polaris, business X-HELO: smtp.eu.adacore.com Received: from mel.act-europe.fr (HELO smtp.eu.adacore.com) (194.98.77.210) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Mon, 30 Oct 2017 10:11:16 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-smtp.eu.adacore.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1BDD81F5E; Mon, 30 Oct 2017 11:11:13 +0100 (CET) Received: from smtp.eu.adacore.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.eu.adacore.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id dni0vxITTLTV; Mon, 30 Oct 2017 11:11:13 +0100 (CET) Received: from polaris.localnet (bon31-6-88-161-99-133.fbx.proxad.net [88.161.99.133]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.eu.adacore.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B107281387; Mon, 30 Oct 2017 11:11:13 +0100 (CET) From: Eric Botcazou To: Trevor Saunders Cc: gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org, Richard Biener , Richard Sandiford Subject: Re: [09/nn] Add a fixed_size_mode_pod class Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2017 10:13:00 -0000 Message-ID: <2844617.BtP9k82yMO@polaris> User-Agent: KMail/4.14.10 (Linux/3.16.7-53-desktop; KDE/4.14.9; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <20171030024142.g4padww3krzjgtmo@ball> References: <87wp3mxgir.fsf@linaro.org> <3100781.Bqs18LrnqX@polaris> <20171030024142.g4padww3krzjgtmo@ball> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-SW-Source: 2017-10/txt/msg02170.txt.bz2 > It sounds like people are mostly concerned about sun studio and xlc? It > doesn't seem that hard to provide precompiled binaries for those two > platforms, and maybe 4.8 binaries for people who want to compile theire > own gcc from source. I'm not sure that we want to enter the business of precompiled binaries. Moreover, if we want people to contribute to GCC's development, especially occasionally to fix a couple of bugs, we need to make it easier to build the compiler, not the other way around. -- Eric Botcazou