On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 10:53:49AM -0500, Shawn Walker wrote: > It should be very rare that you have a build that *requires* gcc.
I've run into FOSS that uses GCC C extensions. Nowadays Sun Studio has support for a number of those extensions, but by no means all. Occasionally you run into stuff that uses GCC local functions, for example. But you're right, it is rare, and getting rarer as Sun Studio adds support for such extensions. Nico --
