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Date:      Sun, 17 Mar 1996 20:45:34 +1030 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert)
Cc:        jdp@polstra.com, nate@sneezy.sri.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: GAS question
Message-ID:  <199603171015.UAA19252@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <199603170352.UAA18530@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Mar 16, 96 08:52:49 pm

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Terry Lambert stands accused of saying:
> Oh god, this sucks.
...
> Variable references are plain old variable references.  Why is GCC so
> complicated?

Optimisation without requiring intimate knowledge of every possible 
target platform in the compiler.  

VC++ is targeted to _one_ processor.  GCC supports several dozen.

Suck on _that_ one, Microsoft.

> 					Terry Lambert

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