From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 6 6:10:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mushi.colo.neosoft.com (mushi.colo.neosoft.com [206.109.6.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5EBF71569E for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 06:10:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@taronga.com) Received: (qmail 21886 invoked from network); 6 Jan 2000 14:10:30 -0000 Received: from citadel.in.taronga.com (10.0.0.43) by mushi.in.taronga.com with SMTP; 6 Jan 2000 14:10:30 -0000 Received: by citadel.in.taronga.com (Postfix, from userid 100) id E498932307; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 08:09:39 -0600 (CST) To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: alt. C compiler X-Newsgroups: taronga.freebsd.hackers In-Reply-To: <200001052027.PAA32580@lakes.dignus.com> References: <1641.947103183@monkeys.com> Organization: Cc: Message-Id: <20000106140939.E498932307@citadel.in.taronga.com> Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 08:09:39 -0600 (CST) From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > We're talking about making it easier to use the FreeBSD library code > in other programs (i.e. `port' it somewhere) - presumably with a > strict ANSI C compiler other than gcc. Or to use an ANSI C compiler other than GCC on a FreeBSD system. > While that is certainly a laudable goal - I question the term "pragmatic". > Just how often is this going to happen? Never, if the effort isn't made. > Is it worth the effort? I think so. GCC is a decent compiler but it would be better if we were able to reasonably easily use other tools. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message