From owner-freebsd-current Thu May 28 23:02:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA06729 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 28 May 1998 23:02:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (castles215.castles.com [208.214.165.215]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA06713 for ; Thu, 28 May 1998 23:01:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@antipodes.cdrom.com) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by antipodes.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA00310; Thu, 28 May 1998 21:56:40 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199805290456.VAA00310@antipodes.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Nate Williams cc: joelh@gnu.org, rnordier@nordier.com, eivind@yes.no, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fix for undefined "__error" and discussion of shared object versioning In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 28 May 1998 13:41:48 MDT." <199805281941.NAA20236@mt.sri.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 21:56:39 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > [ Replacing GCC with TenDra ] > > > 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. Given that gcc builds and runs just about everywhere, many people would argue that this isn't something they care about. > > I guess I don't see why we're looking to change. > > Better/faster/less buggy compiler with a much less restrictive Copyright > seems like a win overall to me. So far all we've seen is "less restrictive copyright". I'd certainly be happy to see more of the rest, but it has to be understood that we will have to support gcc in one form or another for the foreseeable future. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message