On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 16:49:09 -0800, Chuck McManis <cmcmanis@mcmanis.com>
wrote:
> Further, the NetBSD community is 
> unwilling to sacrifice some of the non-standard features of gcc in order
> to make an ANSI-C OS that could be compiled on other platforms with
> different tools 

That's the crux.  If NetBSD's sources rely on gcc-only features, we have
to use gcc to build NetBSD.  If OTOH NetBSD's sources were strictly ANSI
compliant, we'd have our pick of compilers.  

Given NetBSD philosophy of portability uber alles, I'm surprised we'd
restrict ourselves to the output of a single compiler, or even a single
compiler collection.  

--jkl