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

[Christoph Mallon]

Andrew Reilly schrieb:
> 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?

You would just be implemeting an interface. This does not make the 
implementation a derivate work.