From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Mar 17 03:09:40 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id DAA06487 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 17 Mar 1996 03:09:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.rwth-aachen.de (mail.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.144.9]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id DAA06481 for ; Sun, 17 Mar 1996 03:09:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de) by mail.rwth-aachen.de (PMDF V5.0-4 #13110) id <01I2G0U2BMHS0017YF@mail.rwth-aachen.de>; Sun, 17 Mar 1996 12:11:51 +0100 Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id MAA09356; Sun, 17 Mar 1996 12:15:00 +0100 Date: Sun, 17 Mar 1996 12:14:59 +0100 (MET) From: "Christoph P. Kukulies" Subject: Re: GAS question In-reply-to: <199603171015.UAA19252@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Cc: terry@lambert.org, jdp@polstra.com, nate@sneezy.sri.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-to: Christoph Kukulies Message-id: <199603171115.MAA09356@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25 ME8b] Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 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 > > -- > ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ > ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ > ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ > ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ > ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[ > --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de