Re: Moving forward with go cross compilation

2025-07-13 Thread Timo Röhling
Hi Simon, * Simon Josefsson [2025-07-13 12:29]: Basic question that is probably obvious to everyone: what is the reason for the desire to support gcc Go? When talking to some Go upstream projects (especially security-related) they frown when they hear about use of gccgo. Support for gccgo woul

Re: Moving forward with go cross compilation

2025-07-13 Thread Matthias Klose
On 13.07.25 12:29, Simon Josefsson wrote: Helmut Grohne writes: In supporting both gcc Go and golang Go Basic question that is probably obvious to everyone: what is the reason for the desire to support gcc Go? When talking to some Go upstream projects (especially security-related) they frow

Re: Moving forward with go cross compilation

2025-07-13 Thread Simon Josefsson
Helmut Grohne writes: > In supporting both gcc Go and golang Go Basic question that is probably obvious to everyone: what is the reason for the desire to support gcc Go? When talking to some Go upstream projects (especially security-related) they frown when they hear about use of gccgo. /Simon

Moving forward with go cross compilation

2025-07-13 Thread Helmut Grohne
Hello, I've been sitting down with Mathias Gibbens and we talked about Go and cross compilation. This mail summarizes the conversation and conclusions reached. He indicated that the state of the gcc implementation is not good at the moment as much Go code has started to use generics which are