DMD back end dev-kit

Bill Baxter dnewsgroup at billbaxter.com
Thu Jul 3 16:56:51 PDT 2008


BCS wrote:

> We could do it in reverse; compile the GCC backend as a lib, and ship 
> that and the minimal headers to Walter and then he could develop DMD 
> with that without ever seeing a line of (executable) GCC code. He might 
> even be able to build and ship both GCC and DMC versions of DMD.
> 

But GCC is GPL so merely linking against it automatically taints the 
code.  Or is the current front end license GPL compatible?

--bb



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