Basile Starynkevitch wrote: > It is really unfortunate the annoucement did not mention plugins, > another major feature of GCC. Why ?
I consider plug-ins an important feature for the future of GCC. I gave a talk this past week as the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit in which I made the case for modularity of GCC, including plug-ins. I (assisting David Edelsohn, who lead the effort) worked with the FSF to get acceptance for plug-ins for a long time. So, it's not that I don't like plug-ins. But, I don't think that plug-ins are yet a useful thing to announce in what is essentially a "marketing" context. Most users won't be able to use them yet. We have some infrastructure; we don't have a lot of use of that infrastructure yet. More broadly, there are lots of things that didn't make the announcement. There have been many important improvements since GCC 4.4.x; they don't all fit in an announcement. Of course, you're entirely free to publicize plug-ins as you like in any forum you find appropriate. -- Mark Mitchell CodeSourcery m...@codesourcery.com (650) 331-3385 x713