Quotes of the week
Quotes of the week
Posted Apr 23, 2009 20:19 UTC (Thu) by anton (subscriber, #25547)Parent article: Quotes of the week
It's not just the kernel people that is wasting a lot of effort on working around GCC crap, it's also the application people; actually I believe that the kernel people are better off than many application people because the kernel is high-profile enough that the GCC people are at least a little reluctant breaking it, whereas they don't give a damn about most applications. So I would love to see a decent alternative to GCC. Then we could leave the GCC people to concentrating on their main purpose: compiling the SPEC benchmarks.
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