Re: C Code mutilation by using gcc-3.3.x

[Daniel Berlin <dberlin at dberlin dot org>]

> To be more specific about what i am complaining about, here's a
> error message i get when doing ./configure inside ntfsprogs-1.8.4 :
>
> checking version of gcc... 2.95.3, bad
> configure: error: Please upgrade your gcc compiler to gcc-2.96+ or 
> gcc-3+
> version! Earlier compiler versions will NOT work as these do not 
> support
> unnamed/annonymous structures and unions which are used heavily in 
> linux-ntfs.
> [jackson:stock]:(~/src/ntfsprogs-1.8.4)$
>
> Aha, unnamed/annonymous structures and unions .....

> Well thats briljant... in 2 years time all Open Source code will be 
> unnamed
> and anonymous in the form of propiatary .o modules, and Linus will 
> still
> be happy to deliver his /usr/src/linux/kernel subtree of the Linux
> kernel source. Quite funny to see Open Source evolving by implementing
> "modern" C compilers like gcc-3.x.


This has to be the worst attempt at a troll i've ever read.
Either that, or you are just not medicated properly and don't feel like 
actually looking up what an anonymous structure/union is.

If this was Usenet, i'd nominate you for kook of the month.
Since it's not, I just want my time and money back from having to read 
this email.
--Dan