[Info-vax] September 6, 2016 - new Roadmap and State of the Port updates now on VSI website

[Simon Clubley]

On 2016-09-12, Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> wrote:
> On 2016-09-11 19:22:56 +0000, Simon Clubley said:
>
>> With those comments in mind, what would you have done for the compiler 
>> situation which VSI faced ? Would you have also gone with LLVM or would 
>> you have written your own compilers from scratch ?
>
> LLVM is MIT/BSD licensed, not related to GNU nor using GPL.
>

Yes I know but my question was not well phrased.

Now I know what Phillip thinks about GNU tools (and with his comment
about compatibility with file formats and not the tools) I was trying
to find out what he thinks about non-GNU open source tools such as
the LLVM toolkit at the centre of VSI's plans.

Simon.

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