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Re: pre egcs-1.1 testing and Linux 2.1.x
- To: Alan Cox <alan at lxorguk dot ukuu dot org dot uk>
- Subject: Re: pre egcs-1.1 testing and Linux 2.1.x
- From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at transmeta dot com>
- Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1998 12:52:30 -0700 (PDT)
- cc: davem at dm dot cobaltmicro dot com, dkelson at inconnect dot com, linux-kernel at vger dot rutgers dot edu, egcs at cygnus dot com
On Sun, 23 Aug 1998, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > How long do we have to go round the merry-go-round before the gcc people
> > start admitting to bugs instead of blaming the kernel when something goes
> > wrong?
>
> Since when has been telling someone "we dont recommend you use that feature"
> been blaming the kernel ?
NOBODY said "we don't recommend using the feature, because we know it has
problems but we hope to fix them"
Instead, people said "we're going to make the problem go away by hiding
the feature".
And THAT in turn means that we can't compile the kernel with such a
compiler.
To me, that sounds like blaming the feature that the kernel uses rather
than blaming the real bug.
Linus