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Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 21:00:29 -0500
To: obrien@FreeBSD.org, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/bin/dd args.c dd.c dd.h
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At 5:01 PM -0800 3/7/02, David O'Brien wrote:
>On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 01:50:42AM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
>>  David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie> writes:
>>  > I've even actually found a few real bugs while checking with the
>>  > gcc3 warns stuff. A couple of things in usr.bin modify things more
>>  > than once between sequence points!
>>
>>  How close are we to pull the switch on gcc?  And is there a
>>  (relatively) simple way to do this locally for testing purposes?
>
>Far.  I am only dealing with gcc3 as it applies to porting to new
>architectures [..etc..]
>
>That said, I believe the x86 people can wait a little bit longer
>and let the Sparc64, IA-64, and x86_64 platforms drive this [..etc..]
>
>For those that cannot wait, there is the gcc-devel port (very soon
>to be gcc31 port).

Tsk, tsk.  You missed the perfect opportunity to say, "buy a cheap
sparc and test everything on that!"        :-) :-)

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