Re: We interrupt you regularly scheduled catfight for.. Linux2.2.18pre13

2000-10-01 Thread Alexander Viro
On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Ug. Have you seen the ISO version of "field: value" struct initializers? Yes. Almost trivial search-and-replace job. Why are you asking? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: We interrupt you regularly scheduled catfight for.. Linux2.2.18pre13

2000-09-30 Thread Alexander Viro
On Sat, 30 Sep 2000, Horst von Brand wrote: > Alexander Viro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > [...] > > > Patches are welcome. But keep in mind that we _are_ dependent on a > > particular compiler. gcc, that is. I would be glad to get rid of it - the > > codebase is extremely messy. However, rem

Re: We interrupt you regularly scheduled catfight for.. Linux2.2.18pre13

2000-09-30 Thread Alexander Viro
On Sat, 30 Sep 2000, Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote: > Where does the idea that the kernel 'needs' a special compiler > come from ? I have been under the impression that that is just Mostly from the sad fact that it does. > what we were trying to get away from . I am remin

Re: We interrupt you regularly scheduled catfight for.. Linux2.2.18pre13

2000-09-30 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello Alexander , On Sat, 30 Sep 2000, Alexander Viro wrote: > On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > I personally dislike the 'autmatically detect kgcc and gcc272' patches a lot, > > and I think we should put a sentence like > > If you are using a distribution that ships with

Re: We interrupt you regularly scheduled catfight for.. Linux2.2.18pre13

2000-09-30 Thread Alexander Viro
On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > I personally dislike the 'autmatically detect kgcc and gcc272' patches a lot, > and I think we should put a sentence like > > If you are using a distribution that ships with a default C compiler that is > not able to compile linux kernel, use make