Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 15:16:38 -0700 From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@atg.aciworldwide.com> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GNU Compiler Symlinks Message-ID: <200110292216.f9TMGc0H006478@atg.aciworldwide.com> In-Reply-To: Message from Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG> of "Mon, 29 Oct 2001 16:42:21 EST." <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1011029160342.39894E-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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> Also, contrary to what you're suggesting, the system is designed to be > built with the GNU C compiler. We have gcc'isms in a number of places in > the source tree, and the chances are very high that the system would not > work properly unless the compiler perfectly emulated these gcc-isms. Sure, but I can make the same argument about Irix and the MIPSpro compilers. Or Solaris and the Sparcworks compilers. Neither of these OSes find it necessary to use names other than cc. What are the chances, realistically, that FreeBSD will ever ship with two C compilers in the base system? --lyndon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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