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Right but that's because the compiler is emitting code into the binary that exists verbatim in the GCC source.


Which makes the assertion false, otherwise there wouldn't be a need for the "GCC Runtime Library Exception".

> "In the FOSS world the license of the compiler has nothing to do with the license of the compiled software".


There is no other FOSS compiler that influences the license of the compiled software, afaik. So I think that statement holds up anyway.




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