On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 12:10:04PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: > James Lee <[email protected]> wrote: > > > <quote src="http://gcc.gnu.org/";> > > GNU system was developed to be 100% free software, free in the sense that > > it respects the user's freedom. > > </quote> > > > > This includes users exercising the freedom to not use gcc. As most of > > the projects causing problems are run by people with a quasi-religious > > fanaticism to openness and freedom the best hope in effecting change to > > the upstream software is to play on this and point out that software > > that is locked in to one compiler or system is not open and contravenes > > their own beliefs. > > Well said! > > Unfortunately Sun did not publish cc as OSS even though the legal process was > ready years ago. Did someone look for gcc alternatives? > > I am asking this as it may become important for compiling Schilix-ON in the > future.
One alternative that I'm following (mainly for other reasons but still) is the generic compiler/virtual machine infrastructure LLVM and it's C frontend Clang. -- Trygve _______________________________________________ maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers .:: This mailing list's archive is public. ::.
