[rescue] Sunshack and Sun stuff to giveaway

Phil Stracchino phil.stracchino at speakeasy.net
Mon Oct 29 17:58:46 CDT 2007


der Mouse wrote:
>>> Sorry, but-- I don't feel any particular compulsion to limit myself
>>> to reasons that don't seem silly to you. :-)
>> Oh, I wouldn't dream of you doing that... :)
> 
> :-)
> 
>> You won't use one compiler because it has bugs which also appear in
>> the one you will use.
> 
> Do they?  I certainly haven't noticed them in any non-sparc64 version,
> though admittedly I haven't tried that particular test.
> 
> [test]
> 
> Hmm, yes, it appears alpha suffers from a very similar bug.  Ugh.
> Thanks for prodding me into discovering that.  I should probably turn
> the report into a toolchain PR.

Speaking as a former Cygnus engineer, yes, please do.  :)


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