On Nov 14, 2007 8:45 PM, Pietro Gagliardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have nothing against gcc. I have everything against the GPL. I have
> no idea of Solaris' history, though.
Then what are you doing in this mailing list?
uriel
> On Nov 14, 2007, at 11:55 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 07:52:55PM -0500, erik quanstrom wrote:
> >> wow! if they'd never taken the c compiler out of solaris,
> >> do you think gcc would have gotten where it did?
> >
> > (way OT at this point...)
> >
> > Probably. Face it, Sun's bundled cc was only there to relink the
> > kernel
> > after diddling ("tuning") its constants. Optimization was not its
> > strong
> > suit.
> >
> > We were already using gcc in preference to cc long before Solaris 2.0,
> > especially on other bloatware like X. The only thing cc was good for
> > by then was bootstrapping gcc.
> >
> > Man, you've gotten me all weepy for gcc 1.x. How sick is that?
>
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