[SunRescue] Re: GCC code generation sucks....

[Scotty Logan]

Maybe the ignorant need to be reminded of Henry Spencer's 10th
Commandment for C Programmers:

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10. Thou shalt foreswear, renounce, and abjure the vile heresy which
claimeth that ``All the world's a VAX'', and have no commerce with the
benighted heathens who cling to this barbarous belief, that the days of
thy program may be long even though the days of thy current machine be
short.

Note: This particular heresy bids fair to be replaced by ``All the
world's a Sun'' or ``All the world's a '386'' (this latter being a
particularly revolting invention of Satan), but the words apply to all
such without limitation. Beware, in particular, of the subtle and
terrible ``All the world's a 32-bit machine'', which is almost true
today but shall cease to be so before thy resume grows too much longer.
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See http://www.plethora.net/~seebs/c/10com.html for the full ten.

  Scotty

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Scotty Logan <swl at stanford.edu>
ITSS-CSS http://www.stanford.edu/group/itss/css/

> -----Original Message-----
> From: rescue-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:rescue-admin at sunhelp.org]On
> Behalf Of Mike Meredith
> Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2001 11:06
> To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> Subject: Re: [SunRescue] Re: GCC code generation sucks....
>
> Yes, MIPSpro definitely needs a 'this code was written by ignorant
> Linux fanatics' flag.