Subject: Re: I can't get troff to work
To: Boris Gjenero <bgjenero@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>
From: Tom I Helbekkmo <tih@Hamartun.Priv.NO>
List: current-users
Date: 12/24/1997 07:36:25
On Tue, 23 Dec 1997, Boris Gjenero wrote:

> Ahh... it works now.
> Nevertheless, this is very disturbing.  Is some bug lurking somewhere
> deep in the VAX gcc code?

Not the C compiler; the C++ one.  The "word on the street" is that the
GNU C++ compiler is of significantly lower quality than the C one.  As
another data point, it's impossible to get James Clark's wonderful SP
system (an SGML parser package) to work on NetBSD/sparc -- it dumps core
immediately, and Clark insists that it's not his fault, but a bug in the
compiler or run-time libraries.

-tih
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