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> On Oct 25, 2005, at 6:45 PM, Andrew Pinski wrote:
> > Does that really matter?
>
> gcc is free to ignore users, existing code, porting problems from
> other platforms and other C implementations, if we so choose. I'm
> not used to writing such factors off wholesale. I tend to think a
> balance is better weighing all the different factors. On one hand,
> we have ascii line art in documentation, on the other hand, we have
> this esthetic beauty. Existing, otherwise portable code against,
> confusing a user that is trying to do cut and paste programming on
> terminal emulators running curses packages that break cut-n-paste
> that can be themselves fixed, to fix not just gcc cut-n-paste
> programming, but all cut-n-pasting they might do.
>
> Absent users, absent porting otherwise portable code, absent other
> implementations, I'd stick with the esthetics.
>
