Criteria for GCC 4.0

Scott Robert Ladd coyote@coyotegulch.com
Tue Jun 1 22:08:00 GMT 2004


Joe Buck wrote:
> But "an esoteric frontend to GCC" is not something that the bulk of users
> are crying out for either.  SuSE funded a lot of work on improving gcc for
> x86-64, which is something that a lot of users I know are quite happy
> about.

Of course, SuSE also expected to sell copies of the x86_64 
distribution... again, nothing wrong with that, just a fact. Even when 
someone like me uses a different x86_64 distro, SuSE gains, since I 
recommend their distro for some of my customers.

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Scott Robert Ladd
Coyote Gulch Productions (http://www.coyotegulch.com)
Software Invention for High-Performance Computing



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