From: Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com>
To: Steven Bosscher <stevenb@suse.de>
Cc: Kenneth Zadeck <zadeck@naturalbridge.com>,
Razya Ladelsky <RAZYA@il.ibm.com>, Jan Hubicka <jh@suse.cz>,
Ayal Zaks <ZAKS@il.ibm.com>,
"Berlin, Daniel" <dberlin@dberlin.org>,
"Novillo, Diego" <dnovillo@redhat.com>,
gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org, hubicka@ucw.cz,
Mircea Namolaru <NAMOLARU@il.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: IPA
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 21:25:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <416EED8D.2050604@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200410141922.50258.stevenb@suse.de>
Steven Bosscher wrote:
>On Thursday 14 October 2004 18:48, Kenneth Zadeck wrote:
>
>
>> However, this violates one of the stallman principals of not wanting to
>>have a defined api for the intermediate form of the compiler. So we are
>>forced to do something that is inferior and that, most likely, will not be
>>widely used.
>>
>>
>
>RMS has been convinced to step off his principles before (see gcc
>vs. egcsfor example), so we don't have to declare defeat before
>trying.
>
>IMO we should just work as-if we can have a streamable intermediate
>form, and show that there is serious benefit for GCC and for Free
>Software in general to have this feature. We should gather and put
>up the numbers, and convince RMS that it's a Good Thing.
>
>
Yes.
I have said publicly for some time now that I think that RMS is mistaken
in this particular respect, and that a read/write interface to an
intermediate form is an essential part of GCC's future. Once we build
it and demonstrate that it is useful, I am confident that it will become
part of GCC because I do not think RMS will not want to see GCC cede
ground to other compilers.
--
Mark Mitchell
CodeSourcery, LLC
(916) 791-8304
mark@codesourcery.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-14 21:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-10 15:38 [tree-profiling-branch PATCH] Function cloning + IPCP extension (RESUBMISSION) Razya Ladelsky
2004-10-10 17:10 ` Steven Bosscher
2004-10-10 21:25 ` Jan Hubicka
2004-10-10 23:00 ` IPA (was: Re: [tree-profiling-branch PATCH] Function cloning + IPCP extension (RESUBMISSION)) Steven Bosscher
2004-10-10 23:34 ` Jan Hubicka
2004-10-12 14:22 ` IPA Kenneth Zadeck
2004-10-12 14:41 ` IPA Jan Hubicka
[not found] ` <OF392747EC.15519132-ONC2256F2D.00576111-C2256F2D.005769AD@il.ibm.com>
2004-10-14 16:44 ` IPA Jan Hubicka
2004-10-14 17:22 ` IPA Kenneth Zadeck
[not found] ` <416EADEA.2030406@naturalbridge.com>
2004-10-14 17:24 ` IPA Steven Bosscher
2004-10-14 21:25 ` Mark Mitchell [this message]
2004-10-15 3:39 ` IPA Daniel Berlin
2004-10-12 14:18 ` [tree-profiling-branch PATCH] Function cloning + IPCP extension (RESUBMISSION) Jan Hubicka
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