Re: The GCC Mission Statement says nothing about conforming to international standards!?

2007-02-04 Thread Brooks Moses
icrashedtheinternet wrote: I guess I could have worded my email a bit better. Of course I don't assume that the GCC developers are ignoring standards. Nor do I think any of us are unaware of GCC's ability to support a standard and have extensions to it that go beyond the standard. So I simply

The GCC Mission Statement says nothing about conforming to international standards!?

2007-02-04 Thread icrashedtheinternet
I guess I could have worded my email a bit better. Of course I don't assume that the GCC developers are ignoring standards. Nor do I think any of us are unaware of GCC's ability to support a standard and have extensions to it that go beyond the standard. So I simply want to suggest to the prope

Re: The GCC Mission Statement says nothing about conforming to international standards!?

2007-02-04 Thread Robert Dewar
Joe Buck wrote: The result is that GCC explicitly rejects something that you might have been taught in compiler class, that the standard is a contract between the compiler developer and the users and that the compiler can do anything it wants with any code that does not rigorously meet what is d

Re: The GCC Mission Statement says nothing about conforming to international standards!?

2007-02-03 Thread Joe Buck
On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 01:42:06AM -0700, icrashedtheinternet wrote: > I just read the GCC Mission Statement and I see nothing there about > conforming to international standards for programming languages. Why > does the GCC Mission Statement not include conforming to > internationally accepted st

Re: The GCC Mission Statement says nothing about conforming to international standards!?

2007-02-03 Thread Robert Dewar
icrashedtheinternet wrote: I just read the GCC Mission Statement and I see nothing there about conforming to international standards for programming languages. Why does the GCC Mission Statement not include conforming to internationally accepted standards? Its very counterproductive not to use

The GCC Mission Statement says nothing about conforming to international standards!?

2007-02-03 Thread icrashedtheinternet
I just read the GCC Mission Statement and I see nothing there about conforming to international standards for programming languages. Why does the GCC Mission Statement not include conforming to internationally accepted standards? Its very counterproductive not to use standards. -John Burak