I have nothing against gcc. I have everything against the GPL. I have
no idea of Solaris' history, though.
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?
