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Date:      Sun, 17 Mar 1996 14:31:45 +0200 (EET)
From:      Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee>
To:        "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: GAS question
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960317143041.4875A-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee>
In-Reply-To: <199603171115.MAA09356@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>

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On Sun, 17 Mar 1996, Christoph P. Kukulies wrote:

> > 
> > Terry Lambert stands accused of saying:
> > > Oh god, this sucks.
> > ...
> > > Variable references are plain old variable references.  Why is GCC so
> > > complicated?
> > 
> > Optimisation without requiring intimate knowledge of every possible 
> > target platform in the compiler.  
> > 
> > VC++ is targeted to _one_ processor.  GCC supports several dozen.
> 
> This ain't quite true. VC++ is also targeted to Alpha axp and - I don't
> have my VC++ 4.0 CD handy right now - I believe to other platforms as
> well.  

What will alpha axp think of the reference to the eax register? :)

> > 
> > Suck on _that_ one, Microsoft.
> > 
> > > 					Terry Lambert
> > 
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> 
> --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
> 

	Sander

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