From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JGyhF-0007FM-P4 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 21 Jan 2008 10:36:26 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JGyhE-0007FA-9l for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 21 Jan 2008 10:36:24 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JGyhE-0007F7-5k for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 21 Jan 2008 10:36:24 -0500 Received: from mail.codesourcery.com ([65.74.133.4]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JGyhD-00011Z-Ox for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 21 Jan 2008 10:36:24 -0500 From: Paul Brook Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] WE NEED GCC 4 please Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 15:36:04 +0000 References: <772369.37659.qm@web25706.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> <874pd7ns30.fsf@an-dro.enstb.org> In-Reply-To: <874pd7ns30.fsf@an-dro.enstb.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200801211536.05794.paul@codesourcery.com> Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Cc: Ronan Keryell > Well, what about adding a new backend phase to gcc generating what we > expect for our purpose? Ok, it is rather easy to have a branch in gcc, > harder to have it accepted in the main-stream gcc... :-) With a good > argumentation... IMHO (as a full time gcc developer) it's easier to just implement a code generator from scratch. Paul