From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat May 6 12:55:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from imap4.CS.Berkeley.EDU (imap4.CS.Berkeley.EDU [169.229.60.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEDA137B850 for ; Sat, 6 May 2000 12:55:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stamos@cs.berkeley.edu) Received: from cs.berkeley.edu (ishmael-169-229-102.Reshall.Berkeley.EDU [169.229.102.254]) by imap4.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id FU5LZY00.54Z for ; Sat, 6 May 2000 12:55:10 -0700 Message-ID: <391479C4.2784A121@cs.berkeley.edu> Date: Sat, 06 May 2000 13:00:04 -0700 From: Alex Stamos Organization: UC Berkeley Computer Science Department X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [OT] Finding people with GSM phones (was Re: GPS heads up ) References: <200005061850.MAA18384@nomad.yogotech.com> <200005061907.MAA07403@mass.cdrom.com> <200005061939.NAA18540@nomad.yogotech.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > What's the actual background behind this? > > Being able to track 911 calls in the case of emergency. > While some people may find this a convenient excuse for more Big Brother tactics, I once spoke to a paramedic friend about 911 cell phone tracking after it was first announced. She said that she couldn't overestimate the problems caused by people giving bad directions or locations over cell phones. Apparently, its not uncommon for a person, still dazed from an accident, to report their location as "Somewhere on Interstate 80". -For those non-Americans, I-80 is a 3,000 mile freeway that starts in San Francisco and ends in Boston.- On another topic, I recently read an article on Ace's Hardware comparing the performance of standard benchmarks, on a Alpha 21264 under Linux, compiled with the GCC and Compaq's proprietary compiler. Compaq's C compiler kicked GCC's ass in almost every metric. My questions: Is such a compiler available for *BSD? Why is GCC so bad at Alpha optimization when it does so well on x86? Is somebody asleep at the wheel here? Thanks, Alex Stamos stamos@cs.berkeley.edu ISTORE project, UC Berkeley CS Department To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message