clang vs free software

2014-11-22 Thread Ruben Safir
Helmut Eller : > > If nobody bothers with even > > considering the question, it would appear that it is not all that > > important... > > Maybe nobody bothers because using clang is easier than to fight with > FSF policies. <> It is never a good idea to exclude political and social ramifications

Re: Could we start accepting rich-text postings on the gcc lists?

2012-11-25 Thread Ruben Safir
On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 10:28:39AM -0500, Diego Novillo wrote: > My main concern is losing valid content because of this limitation. > Your only concern is to send email with your android gmail. You also need to learn to trim the CC line

Re: Could we start accepting rich-text postings on the gcc lists?

2012-11-24 Thread Ruben Safir
Sorry - I wasn't really interested in debating this any more than one should debate the effects of having your head squashed if you hang your head over the rail when the IRT is coming. It just gets squashed. BTW, as well as learning to use text for email, also please learn to trim the CC list..

Re: Could we start accepting rich-text postings on the gcc lists?

2012-11-24 Thread Ruben Safir
> > Yes, we should expect users to change, instead of keeping up with users. No - we shouldn't punish developers by making them use stupid mime translational servces that breaks the replying mechanism in EMACS and mutt because they are stupidly try to post to a tech mailing list on their androi

Re: Could we start accepting rich-text postings on the gcc lists?

2012-11-24 Thread Ruben Safir
On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 12:58:33PM -0500, Daniel Berlin wrote: > On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 12:13 PM, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > > Diego Novillo writes: > > > >> Sure. First I wanted to find out whether this requirement is just a > >> technical limitation with our mailing list software. > > > > It i

Re: Could we start accepting rich-text postings on the gcc lists?

2012-11-23 Thread Ruben Safir
On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 03:35:57PM -0500, Diego Novillo wrote: > On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 3:31 PM, Ruben Safir wrote: > >> > > >> > incorrect accessment > >> > >> I can't parse this. > > > > > > Maybe HTML markup can help you. &g

Re: Could we start accepting rich-text postings on the gcc lists?

2012-11-23 Thread Ruben Safir
Why are you using google for your mail? Can't you get a real mail client and a real mail access? Or maybe you work for google, in which I can undersand it.

Re: Could we start accepting rich-text postings on the gcc lists?

2012-11-23 Thread Ruben Safir
> > > > incorrect accessment > > I can't parse this. Maybe HTML markup can help you. Stupid conversation

Re: Could we start accepting rich-text postings on the gcc lists?

2012-11-23 Thread Ruben Safir
On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 12:12:17PM -0800, Andrew Pinski wrote: > On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Diego Novillo wrote: > > In this day and age of rich-text capable mailers, restricting postings > > to be text-only seems quaint and antiquated. Are there any hard > > requirements that force us to

Re: a nifty feature for c preprocessor

2012-01-01 Thread Ruben Safir
On 01/01/2012 12:42 AM, Robert Dewar wrote: On 12/31/2011 4:44 AM, R A wrote: alright, here's another example why eval is a good idea: #define A 17 #define B 153 #define N1 ((A + B)/2) /* intended was (17 + 153)/2 */ #undef A #define A 230 #define N2

Re: Suspicion of regression in uninitialized value detection

2011-12-06 Thread Ruben Safir
On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 09:29:30AM -0500, Robert Dewar wrote: > On 12/6/2011 9:16 AM, David Brown wrote: > > >I would say it's better to have false positives in cases like this, than > >false negatives, because there are easy ways to remove the false > >positives. > > My view is that for compiler

Re: Fwd: Interested In Doing Documentation Project

2011-07-15 Thread Ruben Safir
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 09:07:46PM -0600, selma leathem wrote: > -- Forwarded message -- > From: selma leathem > Date: Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 8:50 PM > Subject: Interested In Doing Documentation Project > To: gcc@gcc.gnu.org > > Hello, > > I am interested in doing the front end doc

Re: template class

2011-06-10 Thread Ruben Safir
FWIW Array( const Array&rhs ); On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 08:30:05PM -0700, eric wrote: > Dear Mr. Bjarne Stroustrup: > > Thanks your suggestion, I follow it but it show fatal error:Array.cpp: > no such file > so > I add #include "Array.cpp" in my main program, pg52.cpp > then > it can compile

Re: Bugzilla new bug page

2011-05-28 Thread Ruben Safir
I told you I couldn't even vreate an accouny...and bugzilla is no a well designed tool anyway On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 04:25:37PM +0100, Jonathan Wakely wrote: > On 11 May 2011 15:05, Jonathan Wakely wrote: > > > > Also, Bugzilla mails to the gcc-bugs list seem to be very slow at the > > moment, t