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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