From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Richard Stallman To: craig@jcb-sc.com Cc: nik@tiuk.ti.com, law@cygnus.com, gcc@gcc.gnu.org, craig@jcb-sc.com Subject: Re: type based aliasing again Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 18:02:00 -0000 Message-ID: <199909170624.CAA19810@psilocin.gnu.org> References: <13132.937411270@upchuck.cygnus.com> <199909151655.RAA05716@tiuk.ti.com> <19990915170504.15439.qmail@deer> X-SW-Source: 1999-09n/msg00748.html Message-ID: <19990930180200.XaUm2JY0pCnKrLTNHaj-Avy9_C3wTh83CBPmKThQRK8@z> >What you repeatedly miss is that there are many many more >people that use gcc as the "free software install tool" than there are >who actually write programs. What you, and others, repeatedly miss is that GCC is a compiler, not a free-software install tool. GCC is a compiler, and it is often run by users to compile programs that they did not write and would not know how to maintain, as well as by the people who are writing a program. Speaking for the GNU Project, it is important for us that GCC support those users well, in addition to supporting programmers well. Please consider good support for them to be *one of* the primary goals of GCC development.