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[Toon Moene]

Robert Dewar wrote:

> <<That's well and good.
> The immediate reason I am here talking to you, however, is that people
> are crying you broke my cray, you broke my pdp11, you broke my vax.
> That is a regression in gcc-3.1.  The change that broke them
> should be reverted.  According to your policy manual, they have
> the right to insist that.>>

> Nobody has a right to insist on anything, unless they have a contract
> that gives them that right.

That's of course true, but what Stephen is complaining about is that
some ports break in real.c (because we think they're on the obsolete
list anyway) and people whine to him because of the

   Contributed by Stephen L. Moshier (moshier@world.std.com).

in the top few lines of real.c.

Now, Stephen is as much a volunteer as I am, so I think we have to tread
carefully, here (even if - strictly speaking - you're right).

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