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Re: Trigraph warnings when compiling linux-2.4.0-prerelease1
- To: jbuck at racerx dot synopsys dot com, torvalds at transmeta dot com
- Subject: Re: Trigraph warnings when compiling linux-2.4.0-prerelease1
- From: dewar at gnat dot com
- Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 12:26:02 -0500 (EST)
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
<<Well, at least, it's not a serious one. And if you want to claim that
the kernel is not written in C, but rather in a language dialect called,
say, gcc258, it's not a bug.
>>
The name of the language is GNU C, and it is perfectly reasonable for
GNU tools and related software to be written in this language. The only
tools that really need to stay with in the confines of traditional C
(ANSI C is already too large) are the compiler itself, so that everything
can be bootstrapped.
But there is really no interest in compiling the kernel with some other
compiler other than the gcc GNU C compiler as far as I can see.