On Sat, Aug 05, 2000 at 10:02:23PM -0500, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: > On Sat, Aug 05, 2000 at 07:25:41PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > libraries and tools are better than the vendor counterparts; Sun's > > compilers and linkers are considerably better than GNU's for SPARC C code, > > for example. > > Likewise for Digital/Compaq. gcc's Alpha code generation and optimization > is really inferior. I don't doubt this in the least, but I still use GCC on SPARC systems and would be reluctant to buy a system with a poor GCC port. If you want my business, work on the GCC port for your system, not some lousy proprietary compiler. It's not even about politics. I'd take a good, portable, proprietary compiler if it gave me all the benefits of GCC and more. Similary for linkers and libraries. I am furthermore *not* suggesting dropping support for non-Unix or non-GCC platforms. I am merely saying that that is not where our focus should be. Cheers -John
