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I'd actually would like to see some citation(s) on that second paragraph of yours. I've seen it claimed a few times, and I've seen it happen to a few other large opensource projects, where someone I know is maintaining something which plugs into one large GPLed library and makes use of it in various ways. That coder usually complains about random changes to the interfaces every (few) months or so when they break half of his code and he has to rewrite large parts each time. While I have no idea if this is the case for GCC, I'd like to read such a policy to see if it's indeed true.