LD Changes To Implicit DSO Linking Update
Kevin Kofler
kevin.kofler at chello.at
Thu Feb 11 03:00:42 UTC 2010
Björn Persson wrote:
> And what happens the day you need to compile that code with another
> compiler?
What compiler? A proprietary compiler? The BSD-style-licensed LLVM/clang
which any proprietary vendor can embrace&extend into a non-Free version?
It's not in the interest of the GNU project (which GCC is supposed to be a
part of) to make it easy to compile code with other compilers!
> Do you consider vendor lock-in through embrace-and-extend tactics to be a
> good thing when a free software project does it?
Yes, see above.
Kevin Kofler
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