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- From: fr@compu.com (Fred Rump from home)
- Subject: Re: PC Unix/Xenix vendors
- Organization: CompuData Inc.
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 17:59:33 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.175933.16276@compu.com>
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- karl@ddsw1.mcs.com (Karl Denninger) writes:
-
- >When was the last time any of you folks out there actually got a compiler
- >bug fixed in, oh, say, SCO's compilers? I remember bitching about some
- >problems for over two years in their Xenix compiler -- while on support --
- >and <never> receiving a fix. So much for "official support". Trust me,
- >their lack of producing a fix won't stop them from charging you the annual
- >or upgrade maintenance fee.
-
- >My life has been spent working around compiler problems in people's
- >products. Compilers that produce bad code. Optimizers which mangle code
- >and cause core dumps. Linkers that won't.
-
- For once we agree. The problem with the SCO (read MS) compiler is that SCO has
- little control over it. It least that was the story from the folks who worked
- in that area. The long lists of 'things' just kept getting longer. GNU was the
- answer to the problem. I'm not sure where the real fault lies here or why MS
- can't do a better compiler. I mean the have the horses and resources.
-
- In any case, I'm not so quick to throw this problem into SCO's lap. As far as
- I know they were and are more of an integrator that an original developer. I
- don't think it was in their scope to write YAC (yet another compiler).
-
- Fred
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