Yes, but is he throwing the baby out with the bathwater here? Does crippling GCC in this aspect make using alternate toolchains more palatable, as they expose t

Yes, but is he throwing the baby out with the bathwater here? Does crippling GCC in this aspect make using alternate toolchains more palatable, as they expose the interfaces needed to do the decently complicated actions a lot of modern developers count on. If people abandon gcc because of restrictions like this, is the FSF really acting in its own best interest?