[gentoo-user] Re: Me, and how to troll LIKE A BOSS.

2016-06-26 Thread Grant Edwards 
On 2016-06-25, Alan Grimes  wrote:

> So you want to be able to use your regular compilers. Of course the
> compilers were written assuming that they will never run on or target
> any operating system that doesn't work Just Like Unix.

I know I shouldn't respond, but I just can't help it...

This is, of course, complete bollocks.

Many people (myself included) use GCC every day for targets that don't
run Unix (or anything like it).  I use GCC for a number of RTOSes
(none of which work at all like Unix).  I also use GCC for projects
with no OS at all.  Some of them have only few hundred bytes of RAM and
maybe a dozen KB of ROM.  Trust me, those systems don't work "Just
Like Unix".

I use Linux as my development host (my preference), but I suspect I'm
in a minority.  I would guess that most people using GCC for either
"bare metal" or RTOS development use Windows as the host environment.
There are also plenty of people who use GCC on MS Windows hosts
targeting MS Windows.  Again, you can trust me that Windows does not
work "Just Like Unix".

Alan's world-view seems to be that anything Alan has never done is
both stupid and impossible.  

If it turns out somebody else _has_ done it, then it's just stupid.

-- 
Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Me, and how to troll LIKE A BOSS.

2016-06-26 Thread Rich Freeman 
On Sun, Jun 26, 2016 at 11:28 AM, »Q«  wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Jun 2016 00:46:38 +0200
> Alan McKinnon  wrote:
>
>> On 26/06/2016 00:14, Andreas K. Huettel wrote:
>
>> > Am Samstag, 25. Juni 2016, 16:31:22 schrieb Alan Grimes:
>> >> Hello, Let me introduce myself again.
>> > [snip]
>> >
>> > Alan is currently enjoying a vacation from the list. No point in
>> > replying anymore.
>>
>> What happened? I feel like I missed something.
>>
>> Alan (the other one)
>
> I believe ComRel happened.  Thanks, Andreas.  :-)
>

Hint, when somebody posts a thread titled "how to troll like a boss"
it is best not to reply.

-- 
Rich

[gentoo-user] Re: Me, and how to troll LIKE A BOSS.

2016-06-26 Thread »Q« 
On Sun, 26 Jun 2016 00:46:38 +0200
Alan McKinnon  wrote:

> On 26/06/2016 00:14, Andreas K. Huettel wrote:

> > Am Samstag, 25. Juni 2016, 16:31:22 schrieb Alan Grimes:  
> >> Hello, Let me introduce myself again.  
> > [snip]
> >
> > Alan is currently enjoying a vacation from the list. No point in
> > replying anymore.  
>  
> What happened? I feel like I missed something.
> 
> Alan (the other one)

I believe ComRel happened.  Thanks, Andreas.  :-)