From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Aug 7 15:49:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA11692 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 7 Aug 1998 15:49:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.6.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA11687 for ; Fri, 7 Aug 1998 15:49:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr02.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA26237; Fri, 7 Aug 1998 15:48:47 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr02.primenet.com(206.165.6.202) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpd026141; Fri Aug 7 15:48:39 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr02.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA02915; Fri, 7 Aug 1998 15:48:33 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199808072248.PAA02915@usr02.primenet.com> Subject: Re: C and static initialization with unions To: jb@cimlogic.com.au (John Birrell) Date: Fri, 7 Aug 1998 22:48:33 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, jb@cimlogic.com.au, mike@smith.net.au, Nicolas.Souchu@prism.uvsq.fr, chuckr@Glue.umd.edu, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199808070758.RAA03868@cimlogic.com.au> from "John Birrell" at Aug 7, 98 05:58:53 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > I also believe that having to port the compiler is a ridiculous barrier > > to entry, and one of the reasons FreeBSD ports are not more prevalent. > > Crap. FreeBSD ports are not more prevalent because some people spend more > time doing the yadda yadda than actually getting off their butts and > doing something to contribute. The original GCC back in the early days did not support a large number of platforms; I think FreeBSD would have been run on a lot of platforms if the tools had been available to let that happen. There were two attempts, the Acorn RISC and Jack Vogel's port of 1.1.x to SPARC, that both died the grim death in the USL vs. BSDI upheaval. 8-(. That said, let me back off a *little*; your reason is much better than mine for why FreeBSD does not *now* run on many platforms. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message