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SubjectRe: My thoughts on egcs+2.2 (do you care??)
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German Jose Gomez Garcia <mat006@pinon.ccu.uniovi.es> said:

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> The point is who makes what?, it's clear that the first is more
> hard to do and with those weird changes on gcc/egcs politics you don't
> know how long it will last..., the second is a really *bad* solution but,
> what the hell, we all know how things got made here XD

This is _not_ "gcc politics", it's just bringing the last (?) errant target
into compliance with what the docu has been saying for ages (somebody
mentioned it was in gcc-2.6.0, probably much earlier).

Fact is, gcc/egcs needs to evolve. It has been stagnating way too long as
things stand, IMHO. Sure, software will get hurt. Particularly software
that was written very closely to the working (not documentation!) of
particular strains of that compiler for particular targets. I.e., foremost
linux on i386, other ports _don't_ have problems with egcs AFAIK.

Complaining about that doesn't help. In Linux Linus is ruler. egcs (who
will take over gcc, AFAIU) has its own rulers, Linux is just another (very
important, but just another (and very unruly at that :)) user. And i386 is
just another one among a truly bewildering array of targets for them.

Just bite the bullet, as Linus always replies if you want to put a kludge
into the kernel: Either no solution, or the right one. No bandaids allowed.
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