See the thread that prompted this: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2015-01/msg00171.html https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2015-01/m

See the thread that prompted this: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2015-01/msg00171.html https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2015-01/msg00... Basically, an Emacs maintainer thinks that this gcc restriction is so harmful to important emacs features that he would be willing to "consider a fork"