Re: GCC AI Policy Announcement

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Claudio Bantaloukas via Gcc <[email protected]> writes:

> On 29/07/2026 03:11, David Edelsohn via Gcc wrote:
>> The GCC Steering Committee has accepted the recommended policy of the GCC
>> AI Policy Working Group.  The policy is described in the following docum=
ent
>> preview / pull request in Forge, which will be committed to the GCC webs=
ite:
>> https://forge.sourceware.org/redi/gcc-wwwdocs/commit/4d0793a6a14bf9bfe9e=
92ac1599840780355199d
>> We expect the policy to continue to evolve and will revisit it
>> periodically.
>> We wish to thank Jonathan Wakely for his leadership of the working
>> group
>> and the members of the working group: Carlos O'Donell, Sudakshina Das, J=
ason
>> Merrill, Joel Sherrill, Sam James, Robin Dapp, and Arthur Cohen.
>>=20
>
> Thank you for doing this. It's good to have more clarity and even
> better that the discussion is ongoing.
>
> Is there a place where we can add topics for future consideration? I
> would like to propose extending the carveouts for:
> - Build systems (autoconf/automake/testuite tcl)

We discussed that specifically and didn't want to exempt those. We need
people to understand it and the Tcl especially doesn't have enough
people comfortable with it already.

> - scripts used by developers (stuff in contrib/)

Yes, asking an LLM to write a deterministic script may be something
people want.

> - ci scripts (.forgejo/*, contrib/ci-*)
>
>> Happy Hacking!
>> David
>
> Cheers,
> Claudio

sam

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