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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.)

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