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Date:      Sun, 17 Mar 1996 12:14:59 +0100 (MET)
From:      "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
To:        msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith)
Cc:        terry@lambert.org, jdp@polstra.com, nate@sneezy.sri.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: GAS question
Message-ID:  <199603171115.MAA09356@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
In-Reply-To: <199603171015.UAA19252@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>

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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.

This ain't quite true. VC++ is also targeted to Alpha axp and - I don't
have my VC++ 4.0 CD handy right now - I believe to other platforms as
well. 

> 
> Suck on _that_ one, Microsoft.
> 
> > 					Terry Lambert
> 
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--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de



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