Re: GCC is a totally fucked-up mess [Was: Re: ion3 linking in os x]

[Guilhem Bonnefille]

I'm surprised about the critics made about the job done by the GCC team. They do the job every body expect them.

Yes, C and related tools (compiler, linker and so on) are not high level tools. They need sufficient skill to handle them. So they are "user-friendly", but for skilled people. In the other hand, they are powerfull for people that know them.

In a same way, ion* is a powerfull window manager, but it is not as "user-friendly" as other window manager. It requires some investment before being "user-friendly".

So please, avoid critics around GCC team. Yes, the GNU linker (like other UNIX linkers) does not handle circular dependencies, but it is not expected do handle them. It just does a simple job, so it is easy to understand it.

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Guilhem BONNEFILLE
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