Re: Moving forward with go cross compilation

[Timo Röhling <roehling@debian.org>]

Hi Simon,

* Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> [2025-07-13 12:29]:
> Basic question that is probably obvious to everyone: what is the reason
> for the desire to support gcc Go?  When talking to some Go upstream
> projects (especially security-related) they frown when they hear about
> use of gccgo.
Support for gccgo would be nice as GCC supports more ports architectures 
than golang. However, gccgo still lacks support for generics, which is 
why it is practically useless for now (and probably the reason why Go 
upstream frowns on it). Hopefully, this will change, though.

Cheers
Timo

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