On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 8:13 PM, David Edelsohn <edels...@gnu.org> wrote: > I am pleased to announce that the GCC Steering Committee has > accepted the contribution of the gccgo front-end and gcc-specific runtime > for the Go language with Ian Taylor appointed maintainer. The GCC > Release Managers will decide the details about the timing of the merge and > inclusion in GCC 4.5 or later. > > Please join me in congratulating and thanking Ian and the Go > language developers. Please update your listing in the MAINTAINERS file.
What is the status of Go as far as building by default and release criteria are concerned (I'm worried that we accept a relatively new non-standardized language frontend)? Will the frontend inclusion need to be reviewed like new backeds do? I hope the frontend plays well with its integration with the middle-end and isn't a maintainance burden. (who uses Go anyway?) Richard. > Happy hacking! > David > >
