On 11/03/2010 11:38 AM, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
>>> That said, I'm not wedded to GCCGO, and if y'all think it would be
>>> better to use GOC or GOCC, I'm fine with making the change.  It's true
>>> that it would be possible to write a driver program for 6g/8g which make
>>> them act more like gccgo, though the reverse would be harder.
>>
>> Eric, do you have any input on this open question?  Have you had a
>> chance to look at the patch?

Sorry, I've been swamped by some other tasks lately, and have not looked
at this patch yet.  I also need to make good on my promise to split off
a stable branch and 2.68.1 release, while applying feature patches like
Go support onto master.

>>  It otherwise seems low-danger to me, but
>> I wouldn't want to move forward on the Libtool sister patch without this
>> one cleared.
> 
> I'm at the point with my gcc patches where I kind of need an answer to
> this question.  The question is: what name should we use in shell and
> make to refer to the Go compiler?  I've been using GCCGO.  Should we
> instead use GOC or GOCC or something else?  How can we decide this?

Personally, I'd like GOC mnemonic of Go-compiler (to match FC for
Fortran-compiler, or CC for C compiler).

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