Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 19 May 2001 21:06:51 -0400 | From | Benedict Bridgwater <> | Subject | Re: Brown-paper-bag bug in m68k, sparc, and sparc64 config files |
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> This bug unconditionally disables a configuration question -- and it's > so old that it has propagated across three port files, without either > of the people who did the cut and paste for the latter two noticing it. > > This sort of thing would never ship in CML2, because the compiler > would throw an undefined-symbol warning on BLK_DEV_ST. The temptation > to engage in sarcastic commentary at the expense of people who still > think CML2 is an unnecessary pain in the butt is great. But I will > restrain myself. This time.
So a shortcoming of the CML1 tools justifies the CML2 language?
I guess the next bug found in the Python2 interpreter will justify writing CML3 in FORTRAN.
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