Re: GCC3.0 Produce REALLY slower code!

2001-06-26 Thread Thomas Pornin
is one way to achieve portability. (yet I do not believe it will happen anyday soon) --Thomas Pornin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordo

Re: GCC3.0 Produce REALLY slower code!

2001-06-25 Thread Thomas Pornin
ation script should also emit some warnings (it detects the versions installed, it just does not bother reporting the potential problem). --Thomas Pornin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More m

Re: GCC3.0 Produce REALLY slower code!

2001-06-25 Thread Thomas Pornin
should also emit some warnings (it detects the versions installed, it just does not bother reporting the potential problem). --Thomas Pornin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http

Re: obsolete code must die

2001-06-14 Thread Thomas Pornin
you nihilist ? --Thomas Pornin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: obsolete code must die

2001-06-14 Thread Thomas Pornin
In article 01a401c0f46b$20b932e0$480e6c42@almlba4sy7xn6x you write: -- Getting rid of old code can help simplify the kernel. This means less chance of bugs. Actually, what you suggest is simply getting rid of users. It would sure simplify things greatly. Are you nihilist ? --Thomas

Re: Children first in fork

2001-04-20 Thread Thomas Pornin
nning, doing that. Well, it works, but with strange bugs in some occasions. I am still sorting these out. It is utterly tricky, anyway. --Thomas Pornin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More m

Re: Children first in fork

2001-04-20 Thread Thomas Pornin
, it works, but with strange bugs in some occasions. I am still sorting these out. It is utterly tricky, anyway. --Thomas Pornin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo inf

Re: quicksort for linked list

2001-03-09 Thread Thomas Pornin
Yet it implies a significantly larger amount of comparisons than quicksort (about twice, I think). Insertion sort will be better anyway for small sets of data (for 5 or less elements). --Thomas Pornin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel"

Re: quicksort for linked list

2001-03-09 Thread Thomas Pornin
a significantly larger amount of comparisons than quicksort (about twice, I think). Insertion sort will be better anyway for small sets of data (for 5 or less elements). --Thomas Pornin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message

Re: Compatibility issue with 2.2.19pre7

2001-01-24 Thread Thomas Pornin
d, or a very smart compiler could also think real hard and replace the whole program by an equivalent printf(). Besides, a standard (C99) compiler will reject the 'main' definition. At least, the return type cannot be implicit anymore. --Thomas Pornin - To unsubscribe from this list: s

Re: Compatibility issue with 2.2.19pre7

2001-01-24 Thread Thomas Pornin
smart compiler could also think real hard and replace the whole program by an equivalent printf(). Besides, a standard (C99) compiler will reject the 'main' definition. At least, the return type cannot be implicit anymore. --Thomas Pornin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: Extraneous whitespace removal?

2001-01-08 Thread Thomas Pornin
ors. gcc admits this syntax but it is bad practice, and should be avoided. For Makefile, DocBook, TeX and assembly, this should be ok too. --Thomas Pornin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pl

Re: Extraneous whitespace removal?

2001-01-08 Thread Thomas Pornin
admits this syntax but it is bad practice, and should be avoided. For Makefile, DocBook, TeX and assembly, this should be ok too. --Thomas Pornin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the F

Re: mount and 2.2.18

2000-12-18 Thread Thomas Pornin
is NFSv3 aware, I suggest you shift your client to NFSv3 as well. It rocks. --Thomas Pornin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: mount and 2.2.18

2000-12-18 Thread Thomas Pornin
aware, I suggest you shift your client to NFSv3 as well. It rocks. --Thomas Pornin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: non-gcc linux?

2000-11-06 Thread Thomas Pornin
d to other people even in such an occurence), is not bound by any scriptural glyph such as '(c)'. I can add '(c) Free Software Fundation' in all my source files, and they will remain mine. So, where I live, the point is moot. --Thomas Pornin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line &qu

Re: non-gcc linux?

2000-11-06 Thread Thomas Pornin
eople even in such an occurence), is not bound by any scriptural glyph such as '(c)'. I can add '(c) Free Software Fundation' in all my source files, and they will remain mine. So, where I live, the point is moot. --Thomas Pornin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscri

Re: non-gcc linux? (was Re: Where did kgcc go in 2.4.0-test10?)

2000-11-03 Thread Thomas Pornin
only my opinion. But if I were to design a new OS kernel right now, I would take special care to isolate and document extensions as much as possible, so that I could ease portability and find bugs more easily. --Thomas Pornin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux

Re: non-gcc linux? (was Re: Where did kgcc go in 2.4.0-test10?)

2000-11-03 Thread Thomas Pornin
were to design a new OS kernel right now, I would take special care to isolate and document extensions as much as possible, so that I could ease portability and find bugs more easily. --Thomas Pornin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" i