On 10 September 2010 15:25, Jack Howarth <howa...@bromo.med.uc.edu> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 03:09:02PM +0200, Manuel López-Ibáñez wrote: >> On 10 September 2010 14:40, Richard Kenner <ken...@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu> >> wrote: >> > >> > But if this were done, then it would be trivial to have proprietary >> > front ends, back ends, and optimizers. So RMS never allowed any such >> > thing nor any scheme that resulted in having any file that could be >> > used for such a purpose. >> >> As far as I know, you can currently plug GCC FEs to a proprietary LLVM >> middle-end using llvm-gcc. It is not a possibility but a reality (read >> the proceedings of the LLVM meetings). Just no one cares, because (a) >> the result is not publicly distributed (only internally or for >> research purposes) and (b) there is zero interest on >> contributing/integrating any code back to GCC from both sides. > > Huh? The dragon-egg gcc plugin to access llvm has been pubicly available > since llvm 2.7...
I am not talking about the plugin. Plugins must be GPL. But the dragon-egg plugin does not make LLVM to fall under the GPL, nor any of the proprietary work that builds upon LLVM. Those are the ones I was referring to. Sorry if I didn't explain myself properly. I hope it is clear now. Cheers, Manuel.
