Subject: Re: GCC to retire VAX support!?
To: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
From: Anders Magnusson <ragge@ludd.luth.se>
List: port-vax
Date: 06/18/2002 19:21:38
> On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 01:01:06PM -0400, Brian Hechinger wrote:
> 
>  > sorry.  i shouldn't even have opened my mouth, but i'm getting quite pissed off
>  > at GCC these days as i try and port more and more software to commercial
>  > compilers.
> 
> Well, you should be upset at the people who wrote the software which uses
> the GCC extensions, not at GCC for providing them.
> 
The problem is that if there exists extensions/unspecified behaviour,
people tend to use it because they didn't know it is bad programming.
Things like "unsigned int i = -1" or "void *s; s++; " are quite common
but may break other compilers.

Hm, I don't know why I wrote this. Just ignore it.

-- Ragge