Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 17:27:16 +0000 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Studded <Studded@dal.net> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, rotel@indigo.ie, mike@smith.net.au, Nicolas.Souchu@prism.uvsq.fr, chuckr@glue.umd.edu, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: C and static initialization with unions Message-ID: <199808211727.RAA11031@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 21 Aug 1998 13:49:00 MST." <35DDDD3C.D50819C7@dal.net>
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> I could (were I not bound by NDA, etc.) name 3 projects off the top of > my head that are loathe to extend their development to FreeBSD because > of the difficulty in using modern development tools (like egcs, and a > couple others) and lack of thread support. When one of them is asked why > they aren't planning a FreeBSD implementation their standard answer is, > "It is too difficult to produce a binary that performs even to our > minimum standards, and therefore it isn't cost effective for us." As a compiler, egcs is no better than our thread support. Attacking Terry over this, when his employer is one of the major sponsors of thread-related development on FreeBSD, seems a little misdirected. > Whether this is important to you or not is entirely dependent on what > you want FreeBSD to be in the next five years. Is it important to *you*? Do you feel like contributing? (Rhetorical question only.) -- \\ 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-hackers" in the body of the message
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