Mentions in a few places about the possibility for people to not implement the GCC codegen part of their PR

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Mentions in a few places about the possibility for people to not implement the GCC codegen part of their PR #503

Closed antoyo closed 1 month ago

antoyo commented 2 months ago

[ ] In the ping message.
[ ] Comments at the top of some files.
[ ] In the readme.
[ ] In the rustc dev guide.

Gerson2102 commented 1 month ago

Hello @antoyo. I would like to take this one, can you give me more context?

antoyo commented 1 month ago

I'm not sure if we actually want this.

@GuillaumeGomez: When we have the GCC codegen distributed in rustup, do you think it will be a bad idea to tell people to not implement new features? Perhaps we could allow it if the tests still pass?

GuillaumeGomez commented 1 month ago

I think it's already a bad idea.

antoyo commented 1 month ago

Since we'll soon have rustup distribution (famous last words), we believe it won't be viable if people can break the GCC codegen any day, so let's not do this.