From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29360 invoked by alias); 14 Sep 2010 10:09:31 -0000 Received: (qmail 29345 invoked by uid 22791); 14 Sep 2010 10:09:30 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from fencepost.gnu.org (HELO fencepost.gnu.org) (140.186.70.10) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 14 Sep 2010 10:09:26 +0000 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:56554) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OvSSI-0001qX-9D for gcc@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Sep 2010 06:09:38 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OvSS3-0008VW-Be for gcc@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Sep 2010 06:09:24 -0400 Received: from mail-gw0-f41.google.com ([74.125.83.41]:57457) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OvSS3-0008VF-9R; Tue, 14 Sep 2010 06:09:23 -0400 Received: by gwj16 with SMTP id 16so3091035gwj.0 for ; Tue, 14 Sep 2010 03:09:22 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.101.204.1 with SMTP id g1mr962408anq.243.1284458961615; Tue, 14 Sep 2010 03:09:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.231.202.17 with HTTP; Tue, 14 Sep 2010 03:09:20 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <11009101222.AA29048@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu> <11009101240.AA29231@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu> <4C8DFD2E.5070406@gnu.org> <20100913145516.GA1156@bromo.med.uc.edu> Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 14:14:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Merging Apple's Objective-C 2.0 compiler changes From: Richard Guenther To: Ian Lance Taylor Cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Manuel_L=F3pez=2DIb=E1=F1ez?= , Steven Bosscher , Jack Howarth , Paolo Bonzini , Richard Kenner , Joe.Buck@synopsys.com, clattner@apple.com, dave.korn.cygwin@gmail.com, gcc@gnu.org, mikestump@comcast.net, nicola.pero@meta-innovation.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2010-09/txt/msg00273.txt.bz2 On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 12:33 AM, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > Manuel L=F3pez-Ib=E1=F1ez writes: > >> In the same sense that adding clang->gcc means that there is less >> motivation for developers to improve the current C/C++ FEs. > > From the perspective of gcc, I think the goal of clang->gcc would be to > replace the current frontends entirely. Yes, doing clang->gcc would get us the C family frontends disentanglement from the middle-end "for free". Richard. > Ian >