------- Comment #51 from matz at gcc dot gnu dot org 2010-08-14 01:26 ------- > There you go, you are now famous. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Compiler_Collection#Criticism
Thank you, that's encouraging, I just hope the language of that article won't be changed too much to also mention everyone else who has a clue. Because, you see, I'm of course very excited about me being famous now and about being the only one who knows the truth, but OTOH I fear there were some other clever people that happen to agree with me, and I now see a real danger of those replacing me in that wikipedia article. Even worse would be that the list of names would be too large to mention in wikipedia and that the list would be replaced by some more unspecific phrases like "people who actually understood the standard" or the like. > The comunity has been warned about GCC. Which community? Rogerio-cdecl church followers? In that case I'm happy, because I'll expect less bug-reports from supporters of that specific religion. I'll continue to feel sorry for them (especially because I've learned over the conversation that you might actually influence new programmers, which is a terrible thing to do for you) but am not particularly looking forward to seeing misguided and crippled attempts of creating meagre imitations of stumbling pseudo bug-reports, especially because we can have the best there is: Rilhas bugs! If, OTOH, you mean a different community, like for instance that consisting of people who actually write C source code, I don't see any warning about using GCC for them. If anything, it's more like an invitation to use GCC for developing because it's more standard compliant than other compilers. > It was a good day's work after all. You mean writing down incoherent brain-dumps? Uhm, well, if that's all your day-work is about... more power to you! -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=45265
