Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: What is up with Redhat 7.0? | From | Jes Sorensen <> | Date | 03 Oct 2000 13:27:36 +0200 |
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>>>>> "Marc" == Marc Lehmann <pcg@goof.com> writes:
Marc> On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 04:26:38PM +0100, Alan Cox Marc> <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote: >> > Which still makes it an broken, experimental, unreleased and >> unofficial > compiler, with all the consequences I said. >> >> And didnt you write something called pgcc once.
Marc> Oh yes, of course while providing full binary compatibility. You Marc> can even mix & match objects from gcc and pgcc and agcc, no Marc> kidding. No distribution that used pgcc was ever binary Marc> incompatible to any other distribution, which is the point you Marc> keep ignoring.
Doesn't do much good if one of the compilers generates bogus output, but obviously you never had to deal with the bug reports coming out of distributors shipping $#@%$# pgcc as their default compiler. Mandrake 6.0 was a disaster in this regard, people would mail you saying they used a standard RH6 to compile and the code didn't work, you made them use a working compiler (ie. not the pgcc crap) and the code suddenly worked just fine. Fortunately Mandrake becamse wiser and threw it away.
Looks to me like Alan's plonk was very appropriate here.
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