Subject: Re: C Language Standard(s)
To: Ted Lemon <mellon@fugue.com>
From: Jason Downs <downsj@teeny.org>
List: current-users
Date: 12/20/1995 10:24:53
In message <199512200325.TAA06649@toccata.fugue.com>, Ted Lemon writes:
>The NCR driver has a timing race.  We don't yet have shared libraries
>on the MIPS.  Our installer is, shall we say, challenging to use.
>Most ports are still running on gcc 2.4.5.  There are all *kinds* of
>substantive things to do both in the kernel and in userland that
>everybody can agree are worth doing.  Why are we arguing about whether
>or not to do something this esoteric?  Why on earth would we introduce
>the kind of instability and unportability that would result from the
>changes you propose?  I'm sorry, but the last thing the NetBSD project
>needs to be spending resources on is makework.

Well said, and most would undoubtably fully agree.  (I hope.)

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