Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 02 Nov 2000 12:07:41 -0700 | From | Tim Riker <> | Subject | Re: non-gcc linux? (was Re: Where did kgcc go in 2.4.0-test10?) |
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Alan Cox wrote: > > > 1. There are architectures where some other compiler may do better > > optimizations than gcc. I will cite some examples here, no need to argue > > I think we only care about this when they become free software.
This may be your belief, but I would not choose to enforce it on everyone. Thank you for you opinion.
> > 2. There are architectures where gcc is not yet available, but vendor C > > compilers are. > > That need to run Linux - name one ? Why try to solve a problem when it hasn't > happened yet. Let whoever needs to solve it do it.
We have proposals here all under NDA. So I won't mention one of them. Perhaps there are some of these folk on the list that would like to comment?
> > Alan
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