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From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
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Subject: Re: Fix for undefined "__error" and discussion of shared object versioning
In-Reply-To: <19980526194334.44185@follo.net> from Eivind Eklund at "May 26, 98 07:43:34 pm"
To: eivind@yes.no (Eivind Eklund)
Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 12:49:52 -0500 (EST)
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> On Tue, May 26, 1998 at 11:59:52AM -0500, John S. Dyson wrote:
> > I really don't think that we would want to also get into compiler
> > support issues.  Tool support issues are complex enough.  I can imagine
> > that egcs (could) be stable enough for our c++ compiler, but am much
> > less confident of it being our default c compiler.
> 
> Personally I'd prefer to use TenDRA if at all possible.  It seems to
> be much better than GCC when you look at error control etc.
> 
> Besides, it has the license we've got as a goal to have overall (ie, a
> BSD-style license :-)
> 
Interesting idea...  I wonder how good it's code generation is (what is
the cost of using it, performance wise???)  If it isn't very slow, it
might be a more reliable alternative.

John

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