Stallman on GCC, LLVM, and copyleft
Stallman on GCC, LLVM, and copyleft
Posted Jan 25, 2014 18:36 UTC (Sat) by bconoboy (guest, #80928)In reply to: Stallman on GCC, LLVM, and copyleft by fw
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New backends are done in private all the time. Both Red Hat and Mentor (Code Sourcery as was) are in the business of putting gcc onto new chips. See last year's MSP430 port for instance. We always encourage the customer to let us get the work back upstream, but they don't always do so.