On 11/18/2015 10:34 AM, Manuel López-Ibáñez wrote:
Which is a sad demonstration of how the refusal of GCC's FEs being
re-used for other purposes by GNU tools (and others) was and is a
mistake, and it is leading to GNU tools being replaced by LLVM-based
ones (ultimately affecting GCC and GDB themselves).
I think most developers would agree at this point. Some may have always
agreed. But it was the decision of the FSF long ago to design GCC in
this way and anyone working on GCC had to abide by that decision.
Things are changing, but undoing that fundamental design decision is a
*lot* of work. Don't expect it to land anytime soon.
jeff
