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Re: Convert 3.2 sources to ISO C90
- From: Jeff Sturm <jsturm at one-point dot com>
- To: law at redhat dot com
- Cc: Neil Booth <neil at daikokuya dot demon dot co dot uk>, Stan Shebs <shebs at apple dot com>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 17:50:32 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: Convert 3.2 sources to ISO C90
On Wed, 5 Jun 2002 law@redhat.com wrote:
> In message <20020605210128.GD5421@daikokuya.demon.co.uk>, Neil Booth writes:
> > Is HP ever going to ship a more modern compiler by default?
> I have no clue.
They could ship GCC if they chose, though it wouldn't help much for
prior releases (is anyone still on 9.x?).
But I don't see how the situation is worse than vendors like Sun, who
don't ship a working cc at all. Solaris users are used to buying an ISO
compiler or going to sunfreeware.com to get their bootstrap cc. Likewise
for Windows users, etc. The GCC project doesn't host binaries for those
platforms either.
HP user gets special consideration because their vendor still ships an
ancient compiler that could bootstrap previous GCC releases?
> I don't think that converting GCC to ANSI/ISO brings us that much of a
> significant improvement in GCC itself. So I wouldn't classify this as
> holding GCC progress hostage.
GCC already presents too many obstacles to newcomers, this funny dialect
of C being just one example.
Jeff