Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 13:49:00 -0700 From: Studded <Studded@dal.net> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: rotel@indigo.ie, mike@smith.net.au, Nicolas.Souchu@prism.uvsq.fr, chuckr@glue.umd.edu, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: C and static initialization with unions Message-ID: <35DDDD3C.D50819C7@dal.net> References: <199808081410.HAA13932@usr02.primenet.com>
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Terry Lambert wrote:
>
> > > The problem here is that "largely" is just as uncompilable as "not at
> > > all".
> >
> > Is it? How many developers care that isn't possible?
>
> Only the ones actually doing work with modern developement tools.
I could (were I not bound by NDA, etc.) name 3 projects off the top of
my head that are loathe to extend their development to FreeBSD because
of the difficulty in using modern development tools (like egcs, and a
couple others) and lack of thread support. When one of them is asked why
they aren't planning a FreeBSD implementation their standard answer is,
"It is too difficult to produce a binary that performs even to our
minimum standards, and therefore it isn't cost effective for us."
Whether this is important to you or not is entirely dependent on what
you want FreeBSD to be in the next five years.
Doug
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