Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 6 Sep 2000 10:25:24 -0600 | From | Richard Gooch <> |
| |
Alexander Viro writes: > > > > On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Richard Gooch wrote: > > > Jamie Lokier writes: > > > Chris Wedgwood wrote: > > > > I think would be really cool if all this 'magic' in gcc (whatever > > > > part of gcc is irrelevant right now) would be exported into a library > > > > or shared object which editors could then load and use... dynamically > > > > perhaps. > > > > > > Sorry, there's a GCC policy decision against putting it into a > > > shared library. > > > > Why? > > Not-so-wild guess: GPL issues, mixed with serious lack of enthisiasm about ^^^^^^^^^^ That was my guess. Politics. Ideology. Bah.
> making the internal API frozen by exposure to library users.
An exercise in decent API design. BFD.
> Besides, there is another issue: WTF is wrong with good old pipes?
In this context, I agree. It's not as if there's an awful lot of data being thrown around. Compilation costs are likely to dominate over in-core copies.
Regards,
Richard.... Permanent: rgooch@atnf.csiro.au Current: rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
|  |