Messages in this thread |  | | From | David Woodhouse <> | Date | Thu, 07 Sep 2000 11:19:46 +0100 |
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davem@redhat.com said: > Shared library linkage brings you into the same grey area that binary > only kernel modules fall into, this means it's risky and this is > almost certainly how the GCC team views this situation.
But how much work would it require to do so? If your theoretical vendor of closed-source compiler backends were to believe that a shared lib of the GCC frontend would be legal, surely they'd just make it shared themselves, then use it as such? It's hardly a effective preventative measure.
-- dwmw2
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