GCC IMA & general future proposal

[Joe Buck]

On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 08:38:23PM -0600, Jeffrey A Law wrote:
> Well, actually a number of the organizations I've talked to actually
> prefer the Sun method -- corrupt repositories and all.  Basically
> they blast away their repo once a week or so to deal with that
> little problem.

I have spent about five years of my life fighting Sun's broken repo.
(I've had to produce code that works with Sun's compiler, g++, HP aCC,
and sometimes MS).

You've got to blast it away a lot more than once a week, and it
regularly gets corrupt.  I hate it with a passion.  I've had more
trouble with it than with any of the other compilers.  The object
file bloat is a small price to pay for something that Just Works.