Re: Merging feature/android

[Po Lu]

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

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>   > > We have no responsibility to support any particular compiler other
>   > > than GCC.  We can do so when we wish.
>
>   > That's not what the GNU Coding Standards say:
>
> That part of the Coding Standards is about a different question, more
> specific.  Namely, about whether to use GNU extensions (to C, for
> instance) in the code of GNU packages.
>
> My previous message addressed a related but different question:
> whether to make it a goal to support compiling Emacs with a compiler
> other than GCC.
>
> These two questions are in the same area, indeed they overlap,
> However, they are not the same question.  There is no conflict between
> what I wrote recently about one, and what the Coding Standards say
> about the other.

The problem we are discussing is an extension being used by
emacs-module.c, not whether or not we should support compilers other
than GCC.