[patch] to gcc: use xexit/xatexit in fixinc

[Gerald Pfeifer]

On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Michael Sokolov wrote:
> First of all, BSD stands for Berkeley Software Distrubition. BSD is
> the 9-track tape distributed by the CSRG group at UC Berkeley. Period.
> Anything else is not BSD. Also note that the people making and
> distributing FreeBSD and such do understand this and don't try to
> misrepresent themselves as BSD

http://www.freebsd.org says "FreeBSD is an advanced BSD UNIX operating
system", which is not that clear to me -- but note that I am not a native
speaker!

In general I have noticed that people often, and also on these lists, use
"BSD"  to refer to "{Free,Open,...}BSD", that's why I wanted to clarify.

I apologize if my posting had an adversary effect.

> Now regarding different versions of BSD and Ford Model T. To start
> with, "Michael's version of BSD" is simply a personal insult. I do not
> maintain BSD as a personal matter (if I did, it wouldn't be BSD).

Sorry, but I understood "Michael's version of BSD" as in "Gerald's
computer", and I don't see how this should be an insult?

4.3BSD was a great achievement at its time and served as the base for a
lot of developments in (other) operating systems. It is not actively used
as widely as it used to be, but those that do use (and maintain) it care
very much about it and strongly reject the idea of retrofitting it with
the equivalent of airbags.

This is what I basically ment by that comparison. Sorry if that was not
clear enough from my original posting.

> As for Ford Model T, I would appreciate it if you respected a software
> maintainer's natural right to make steering decisions for the software
> he/she maintains, however unpopular with others.

I certainly do agree. And making GCC more portable certainly is an idea
I am strongly in favor of.

It seems we don't really disagree, after all?

Gerald
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Gerald "Jerry" pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/~pfeifer/