Re: Remove RMS from the GCC Steering Committee

2021-03-27 Thread Didier Kryn
    I've been lurking on this list for a while but never contributed in any way to the project. Therefore I understand my voice has little weight.     I'm terrified by this campaign of harassment against the person who has given the biggest contribution to free software. This confirms to my eyes t

Re: Remove RMS from the GCC Steering Committee

2021-03-30 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 30/03/2021 à 10:25, Jonathan Wakely via Gcc a écrit : > I've been asking myself what benefit GCC gets from being linked to GNU and > all I can think of is the DNS records for gcc.gnu.org.     Can you remind the meaning of GCC. Isn't it "*GNU* Compiler Collection" ?     If this is still true, i

Re: Remove RMS from the GCC Steering Committee

2021-03-30 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 30/03/2021 à 11:47, Didier Kryn a écrit : Sorry it wasn't Jonathan Wakely but Richard Biener > Le 30/03/2021 à 10:25, Jonathan Wakely via Gcc a écrit : >> I've been asking myself what benefit GCC gets from being linked to GNU and >> all I can think of is the DN

GCC association with the FSF

2021-04-11 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 08/04/2021 à 17:00, David Brown a écrit : > At some point, someone in the public relations > department at IBM, Google, Facebook, ARM, or other big supporters of the > project will get the impression that the FSF and GNU are lead by a > misogynist who thinks child abuse is fine if the child cons

Re: removing toxic emailers

2021-04-14 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 14/04/2021 à 16:49, Jonathan Wakely via Gcc a écrit : > On Wed, 14 Apr 2021 at 15:39, Thomas Koenig wrote: >> On 14.04.21 15:18, Eric S. Raymond wrote: >>> A strong norm about off-list behavior and politics being >>> out of bounds here is also helpful. >> That would have banned the whole discuss

Re: A suggestion for going forward from the RMS/FSF debate

2021-04-16 Thread Didier Kryn
    From reading most of this thread, it is clear to me that     - The authority of the FSF, GNU and RMS over GCC is and has been a fiction for decades,     - This fiction has been erased from the official web page of the project,     - It would be usefull to clarify with the FSF and GNU what th

Re: A suggestion for going forward from the RMS/FSF debate

2021-04-17 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 16/04/2021 à 19:06, Richard Kenner a écrit : >> The authority of the FSF, GNU and RMS over GCC is and has been a >> fiction for decades, > For the most part, I agree. > >> It would be usefull to clarify with the FSF and GNU what the >> actual relations are, > Why? What would that gain? I go ba

Re: Usage of C11 Annex K Bounds-checking interfaces on GCC

2019-12-15 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 16/12/2019 à 03:43, Liu Hao a écrit : I generally consider the Glibc folks better trained in C and more knowledgeable of the C standard then me. If the Glibc folks are making the mistakes, then there is no hope in practice for folks like me or those who are just starting in C. There are too ma

Re: Detecting superfluous "else"

2018-07-21 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 19/07/2018 à 10:49, U.Mutlu a écrit : Hi, it makes me 'crazy' when I see such if-else constructs:   if (x)     return 7;   else     return 4; (Of course in this case one better would use the shorthand "return x ? 7 : 4;", but that's not the issue here) The 'else' is obviously superfluous/r

Re: gcc-gnat for Linux/MIPS-32bit-be, and HPPA2

2018-07-22 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 22/07/2018 à 03:24, Carlo Pisani a écrit : hi guys got some deb files from an old Debian's archive(1), converted .deb into .tgz, and installed but it seems there is no gnat-gcc I don't know how Gnat works on Debian, but for sure it doesn't work like the version I have on my gentoo-x86 box whe

Re: GCC Mission Statement

2021-06-08 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 09/06/2021 à 07:09, Valentino Giudice via Gcc a écrit : > If the Steering Committee updates the mission statement, it may appear > that the mission statement follows the decisions of the steering > committee (in place of the contrary). In that case, what would be the > purpose of a mission state