Re: ancient history (was re: reduce dwarf debug size)

2007-03-02 Thread Richard Kenner
> > Indeed I disagree. I'm not aware of any commercial interests on the FSF > > GCC side. As far as I can recall, the split was between the commercial > > interests on the EGCS side and the non-commercial interests on the FSF > > side. > > It was not anywhere near that simple; there were a numbe

Re: ancient history (was re: reduce dwarf debug size)

2007-03-02 Thread Eric Botcazou
> I could say much more (there are interesting stories about the > behind-the-scenes politics) but it's off-topic. Please think about writing a book telling the whole story when the dust will have settled. :-) -- Eric Botcazou

Re: ancient history (was re: reduce dwarf debug size)

2007-03-02 Thread Manuel López-Ibáñez
What an interesting and unproductive discussion but I hope it ends here or should I call somebody "a member of a German political party very popular around 1940"? :-) Cheers, Manuel. On 02/03/07, Joe Buck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 11:10:22AM -0500, Richard Kenner wrot

ancient history (was re: reduce dwarf debug size)

2007-03-02 Thread Joe Buck
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 11:10:22AM -0500, Richard Kenner wrote: > > And indeed, while this is a controversial statement with which > > some people will disagree, I believe that that split was caused in > > part by commercial interests on both sides of the split (and I was > > there at the time). >