At 07:13 AM 8/6/00 -0400, John Tobey wrote:
>However, I believe I still have a strong case for encouraging adoption
>of the good features of GNU CC and Libc as new standards and getting
>vendors to contribute their optimizations. No one I know really wants
>to maintain portability code such as Configure. Our time could be
>much better spent. At this point we would be gravely mistaken to
>ignore other platforms, but eventually we must move on, as we did when
>we abandoned non-ANSI compilers.
For perl 7, perhaps. Or perl 8. Not perl 6, though.
It's also possible that ultimately gcc will be abandoned by the world in
favor of a standards-compliant compiler. The only reason all its quirks are
tolerated is because there isn't another free C compiler. (gcc's as
successful as it is because of its monopoly position, not because of any
technical superiority. As Russ has said, it really is nasty in a lot of odd
places)
Dan
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