Re: poor documentation example

[Fabrice Scemama]

"Scott D. Yelich" wrote:
> This may not be the place to ask... and I'm not sure I'd like
> the answers -- but I'll ask anyway:
> 
> (1) is it standard (practice) to link cc to gcc? (and who says it is
> standard practice?)
> and
> (2) how many people here have done this?
> 
> As far as linking cc to gcc breaking things.  I'll provide examples.
> Say, was the SunOS cc ansi compatible?  I really do remember
> commany line options to cc that didn't work with gcc and
> vice-versa.
> 
> Scott

Any Linux distribution has cc linked to gcc.

Concerning AIX: i sometimes use an AIX 3.2.5 old box, where
cc was present. This compiler is still doing a good job
(i've used it to compile perl 5.00502 for example). This box
was installed in '93.

Fabrice