Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 25 Oct 2007 18:12:55 +0300 | From | "Pekka Enberg" <> | Subject | Re: Is gcc thread-unsafe? |
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Hi,
On 10/25/07, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > I think the OpenBSD people decided to actually do something about this, > and I suspect it had *nothing* to do with license issues, and everything > to do with these kinds of problems. I wish them all the luck, although > personally I think LLVM is a much more interesting project.
The BSD people are adopting pcc [1] which is a rewritten version of some C compiler originally developed in the late 70s. And yeah, it's basically because they think gcc is becoming too painful to live with [2].
Pekka
1. http://pcc.ludd.ltu.se/ 2. http://www.thejemreport.com/mambo/content/view/369/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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