Re: Plugins always enabled in GCC 4.8?

2012-04-02 Thread Richard Guenther
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 7:37 AM, Basile Starynkevitch bas...@starynkevitch.net wrote: On Sun, 01 Apr 2012 16:41:09 -0400 Diego Novillo dnovi...@google.com wrote: On 3/31/12 1:51 PM, Basile Starynkevitch wrote: If we want to aim towards a more modular GCC made of several shared libraries,

Re: Plugins always enabled in GCC 4.8?

2012-04-02 Thread Basile Starynkevitch
On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 10:44:41AM +0200, Richard Guenther wrote: On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 7:37 AM, Basile Starynkevitch bas...@starynkevitch.net wrote: On Sun, 01 Apr 2012 16:41:09 -0400 Diego Novillo dnovi...@google.com wrote: On 3/31/12 1:51 PM, Basile Starynkevitch wrote: I've heard

Re: Plugins always enabled in GCC 4.8?

2012-04-02 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 12:37 AM, Basile Starynkevitch bas...@starynkevitch.net wrote: On Sun, 01 Apr 2012 16:41:09 -0400 Diego Novillo dnovi...@google.com wrote: On 3/31/12 1:51 PM, Basile Starynkevitch wrote: If we want to aim towards a more modular GCC made of several shared libraries,

Re: Plugins always enabled in GCC 4.8?

2012-04-02 Thread Basile Starynkevitch
On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 05:40:37AM -0500, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 12:37 AM, Basile Starynkevitch bas...@starynkevitch.net wrote: On Sun, 01 Apr 2012 16:41:09 -0400 Diego Novillo dnovi...@google.com wrote: On 3/31/12 1:51 PM, Basile Starynkevitch wrote: If we

Re: Plugins always enabled in GCC 4.8?

2012-04-02 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 6:17 AM, Basile Starynkevitch bas...@starynkevitch.net wrote: You appear to be moving in directions that may give pause to those who championed better separation of concerns in GCC. I am not sure to understand that last sentence (I had to read it 4 times, with

Re: Plugins always enabled in GCC 4.8?

2012-04-02 Thread Richard Guenther
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Gabriel Dos Reis g...@integrable-solutions.net wrote: On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 6:17 AM, Basile Starynkevitch bas...@starynkevitch.net wrote: You appear to be moving in directions that may give pause to those who championed better separation of concerns in GCC.

Re: Plugins always enabled in GCC 4.8?

2012-04-02 Thread Joern Rennecke
Quoting Basile Starynkevitch bas...@starynkevitch.net: I also am in favor of having a software linked dynamically with shared libraries, for a very pragramtical reason: If a software has shared libraries, then modifying one such library in its implementation (not its interface) is very often

Re: Plugins always enabled in GCC 4.8?

2012-04-01 Thread Diego Novillo
On 3/31/12 1:51 PM, Basile Starynkevitch wrote: If we want to aim towards a more modular GCC made of several shared libraries, it seems that we are requiring the host system to have dynamic libraries (which is not a big deal today; all the major OSes running on developers desktop or laptop

Re: Plugins always enabled in GCC 4.8?

2012-04-01 Thread Basile Starynkevitch
On Sun, 01 Apr 2012 16:41:09 -0400 Diego Novillo dnovi...@google.com wrote: On 3/31/12 1:51 PM, Basile Starynkevitch wrote: If we want to aim towards a more modular GCC made of several shared libraries, it seems that we are requiring the host system to have dynamic libraries (which is

Plugins always enabled in GCC 4.8?

2012-03-31 Thread Basile Starynkevitch
Hello All, If we want to aim towards a more modular GCC made of several shared libraries, it seems that we are requiring the host system to have dynamic libraries (which is not a big deal today; all the major OSes running on developers desktop or laptop have them). In that case, I think that