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You may joke, but Stallman actually tried to convince them in 2017 to modify gcc to make one out of it

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2017-04/msg00...

Few years before that Stallman personally sabotaged this kind of tooling "because someone might abuse it". LWN did a write-up: https://lwn.net/Articles/629259/

So not surprising gcc devs weren't especially interested in on it, since Lord Stallman can come in and decree it unethical on a whim out of misguided fears.

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