Re: Alternatives to gcc (was Re: gcc 4.3: when will it becomestandard compiler?)

On Jan 28, 2009, at 7:28 PM, Andrew Reilly wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 07:09:50PM -0800, Steve Kargl wrote:
>> The FSF has not decided what to do about the runtime libraries.
>> These are currently gplv2+link time exception.  In the future,
>> the libraries may be gplv3 + some new link time exception.
>
> The libraries in question are those for long long multiply and
> other low-level code generation short-cuts, aren't they?  I
> understodd that crt0.o and libc.a were both BSD on FreeBSD.
>
> So, to the extent that we currently use the gcc/gpl+exception
> libraries, is it a reasonable proposition to supply versions of
> our own, or would they necessarily be a derivative work of GCC
> simply because only gcc requires those particular runtime
> libraries?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Andrew

	I believe we're still using libgcc.so though, which is a runtime  
library used at multiple levels IIRC, and GPLv3 along with the  
compiler no doubt.
-Garrett