"Stanislav Syekirin" wrote: > > The people on clang architectures need to know that the gcc systems > > are > > different, that different decisions have been made. Education is way > > more important than consistancy. > > I'm all for being educated about differences between architectures. I > think the current manual pages don't achieve it in this particular > regard. They don't, as far as I see, mention anywhere that there even > *are* gcc systems as opposed to clang systems. I've only learned about > it from this mailing list and from blog entries by Frederic Cambus.
Well, now you know. > > This manual page is not hurting you. > > It does cause confusion (e.g. I see no way to find out from the manual > pages on which platforms the GNU assembler is part of the system and > on which platforms it is not; removing the man pages for certain > platforms might not be the solution, but the problem is real). And you are no longer confused.