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Re: [rfc/NEWS] GDB works with GCC -feliminate-dwarf2-dups.

On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 06:34:59AM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> I won't start a dispute out of a 5-liner, so go ahead and commit your
> version.  However, at the very least replace "commercial" with
> "proprietary".  This is a distinction the FSF asks us to make (there's
> nothing to prevent a free software project from going commercial as
> long at is stays GPL-compliant).

Either phrasing is fine with me.  But, for the record, I chose the word
deliberately; I don't know of any other free compilers which produce
it, but I do know of compilers which are both commercial and
proprietary which do so.  "non-GCC" would be just as accurate a bucket.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
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