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- From: mmtl@hobson.cc.flinders.edu.au (T.Lampre)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: GCC/GPP in c.b.os2 this week.
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.012658.41130@frodo.cc.flinders.edu.au>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 01:26:58 GMT
- References: <5VqZPB6w164w@dvss.UUCP>
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- In article <5VqZPB6w164w@dvss.UUCP> dvss!jtroy@udel.edu (Jay Troy) writes:
- >
- >
- >Why waste bandwidth with the new posting of GCC/G++ for OS/2 when the
- >EMX version is already working just fine and WITH GDB SUPPORT??!!?!?!
- >I can think of any number of other things that I'd like to see passing
- >through that group that would be more worth while than yet another
- >revision of a great GNU tool that doesn't even improve upon the current
- >"latest and greatest" port. It seems to me that man power efforts are
- >wasted if talented people are performing simultaneous ports of the same
- >target.
-
- The targets are not the same. EMX targets both DOS and OS/2. GCC/2
- targets only the latter. If you look at the sources for EMX you will
- see how much work is involved getting it to fit into 8.3 filenames and
- other DOS stuff. Those of us working on GCC/2 do not want to carry
- that burden.
-
- As much of my career has been spent maintaining others code I have an
- attitude of changing as little as possible to get the thing to work,
- and to try and get those changes incorporated into the base product.
- GCC/2 2.2.2 already has some OS/2 support built into it thanks to
- Barry Jaspans efforts at pursuading Richard Stallman.
-
- >
- >I'm all for the spirit of competition, but the bandwidth comsumed by 82
- >parts of the new C compiler is really a waste of many resources. Maybe
- >we should create a comp.os.os2.ports where developers can discuss and
- >keep track of what others are working on. Thus saving untold man-hours
- >and resources. Some coordination would benefit all of us.
- >
-
- I'm not sure if GCC/2 should have been posted this soon, particularly
- as I forgot to include some of the header files. I didn't submit it,
- the moderator of c.b.os2 took it upon himself to do so. I just hope he
- noticed the missing bits and put them back in.
-
- Trevor Lampre
- <mmtl@cc.flinders.edu.au>
-