Will Apple still support GCC development?

[Robert Dewar]

Toon Moene wrote:

>  The first
> thing I did after receiving it is wiping out OS X and installing a real 
> operating system, i.e., Debian.

Is it really necessary to post flame bait like this, hopefully people
ignore this
> 
> A big endian system is indispensible if you are a compiler writer, 
> because little endian hardware hides too many programmer errors; At the 
> previous GCC Summit even the head of the Intel compiler group agreed 
> with me on this and pointed out that the Itanium can be run in big 
> endian mode.

In general I think you need to test both cases, since for sure quite
a bit of stuff does depend on endianness.

> Well, they could do all they might.  I'm just waiting for IBM coming 
> forward with a Linux PowerPC64 laptop, so that I can continue to use big 
> endian hardware.

Suggestion, don't hold your breath!
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