From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Oct 26 9:28:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from robin.mail.pas.earthlink.net (robin.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B61A137B408; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 09:28:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dialup-209.247.142.186.dial1.sanjose1.level3.net ([209.247.142.186] helo=mindspring.com) by robin.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 15x9pz-0001ql-00; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 09:28:03 -0700 Message-ID: <3BD98F48.7563B3E3@mindspring.com> Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 09:28:56 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Reply-To: tlambert2@mindspring.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: obrien@FreeBSD.org Cc: John Baldwin , arch@FreeBSD.org, Lyndon Nerenberg Subject: Re: your mail References: <20011025190116.C4609@dragon.nuxi.com> <20011026024542.B12708@dragon.nuxi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David O'Brien wrote: [ ... on getting rid of the "gcc" name for "cc" ... ] > Again, other than some utopian idea of a clensed spirit, what do you hope > to acomplish with this change? The ability to have a single schelling point to change to replace the compiler with, for example, the Intel compiler that Intel keeps threatening to release as Open Source in order that Intel benchmarks be better than benchmarks on any other processor. > I will direct all the freebsd-questions email on "where did gcc" go to > you. Heh. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message