https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61315
--- Comment #13 from Dominique d'Humieres <dominiq at lps dot ens.fr> --- > BTW, having a user-base without developers coming out of that user-base is > useless. If no one from apple-darwin is interested in developing GCC, then > it doesn't matter how big the user base is: GCC for apple-darwin will not get > developed by magic gnomes (or by people that don't even own Apple hardware). > So perhaps it would be in your own interest to do a bit of recruiting in the > apple-darwin camp. In my paranoid days I have the feeling that I don't exist on the gcc lists!-(although I am only interested by gfortran and optimization, I do what I can to keep the test suite as clean as possible for darwin: bug reports, debugging when I can, ...). Iain Sandoe may have a similar feeling too, even if he has a significant contribution in fixing darwin problem. I also acknowledge that most of the GCC developers are quite helpful and that some of them consider their duty to fix their bugs even on darwin. However I consider that comments such that "darwin is broken by design", "darwin sucks", ... are unprofessional. Last thing I want to say, I have seen several bugs blamed to drawing that were gcc bugs and also several "unfixable on darwin" features that got fixed by gcc improvements.
