Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 17:49:19 -0500 (CDT) From: Tony Kimball <alk@pobox.com> To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: nate@mt.sri.com Subject: Re: Fix for undefined "__error" and discussion of shared object versioning Message-ID: <199805282249.RAA03682@pobox.com>
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Quoth Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>:
> > My own concern would be the amount of code in third-party programs
> > that uses gccisms.
>
> Very few programs *should* use gccisms. If they do, they are broke
> since they won't build on other OS's compilers.
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Various points:
1 Non-portable != broken.
2 I'm amazed to see this coming from Nate "Java" Williams!
Gcc is the *platform*. Gcc is what makes code portable,
not ANSI, which is merely an idea, and not a platform.
3 People use gccisms because then they don't have to write asm,
which is much *less* portable.
4 Are you planning on fixing them? Egad, the number of ports!
> Better/faster/less buggy compiler with a much less restrictive Copyright
> seems like a win overall to me.
Remains to be seen, as far as I am concerned. Various points:
1 TenDRA should be compared to GCC 2.8.1, not 2.7.2.1.
2 GPL should not be a restriction in practice for anyone
except someone who wants to retain source for a commercialization
of added-value back-end code generation under FreeBSD, since there
are plenty of source-to-source compilers suitable as front-ends to
GCC. Since the amount of money to be made doing this is a negative
number, it's not a restriction in practice.
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