Re: Why does everyone hate gcc 2.95?

2000-10-08 Thread Jamie Lokier
Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote: > >Hey, colour ls is _useful_! > Use white background Xterm. Come again? Ugh! > One of the biggest mistakes RH ever did was happily jumping off _that_ > cliff to follow SuSE. Colour ls predates both Red Hat and SuSE. -- Jamie - To unsubscribe from this list: se

Re: Why does everyone hate gcc 2.95?

2000-10-07 Thread Kim Shepherd
er 08, 2000 12:51 AM Subject: Re: Why does everyone hate gcc 2.95? > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jamie Lokier) writes: > > >Alexander Viro wrote: > >> ITYM "cute". As in "cute dancing paperclip". As colourized ls. > > >Hey, colour ls is _useful_! > >

Re: Why does everyone hate gcc 2.95?

2000-10-07 Thread Henning P. Schmiedehausen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jamie Lokier) writes: >Alexander Viro wrote: >> ITYM "cute". As in "cute dancing paperclip". As colourized ls. >Hey, colour ls is _useful_! Use white background Xterm. Come again? First thing I do on _all_ RH installations is "rm /etc/profile.d/colorls*" One of the biggest

RE: Why does everyone hate gcc 2.95?

2000-10-06 Thread Purtell, Andrew
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Is this a problem where the code produced by 2.95 was non-optimal in some significant way or simply incorrect, or is it really just a subjective "takes to long to compile XXX" thing? Andrew Purtell NAI Labs at Network Associates, Inc.

Re: Why does everyone hate gcc 2.95?

2000-10-05 Thread Jamie Lokier
Alexander Viro wrote: > ITYM "cute". As in "cute dancing paperclip". As colourized ls. Hey, colour ls is _useful_! > Or --ignore-fail-on-non-empty as rmdir option. Or "let's replace config > files with directories full of one-liners since packagers can't be arsed > to learn sed(1)" religion. Sig

Re: Why does everyone hate gcc 2.95?

2000-10-04 Thread Horst von Brand
"John Anthony Kazos Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > What does everyone have against gcc 2.95 on this list? I've been > compiling kern els successfully (read: not one single (ever) error in > compilation) with gcc 2.95.2 for more than a year now. What's the big > deal? GCC has traditionally been

Re: Why does everyone hate gcc 2.95?

2000-10-04 Thread Jakub Jelinek
On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 11:12:24PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > No, better yet, > what is a good version to use when porting to a new processor (actually > an old processor)? I've pulled the source to gcc (2.95.2) and binutils > (2.10) in prep for a port to a new/old machine. If these versi

Re: Why does everyone hate gcc 2.95?

2000-10-04 Thread Michael Meding
Hi there, > I hate it because it compiles much more slowly than 2.72 and for > my purposes, Hm, have not checked that. Did you do benchmarks here ? at least, the resulting code is not any faster on > any of the following platforms: x86, SPARC, MIPS, PA-RISC, and Alpha. Hm, quick check of dgemm

Re: Why does everyone hate gcc 2.95?

2000-10-03 Thread doctor
Larry McVoy said ... > On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 04:28:41AM +, John Anthony Kazos Jr. wrote: > > What does everyone have against gcc 2.95 on this list? I've been > > compiling kernels successfully (read: not one single (ever) error > > in compilation) with gcc 2.95.2 for more than a year now. Wh

Re: Why does everyone hate gcc 2.95?

2000-10-03 Thread Alexander Viro
On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Larry McVoy wrote: > hand picked tests. No faster. Just compiles slower. Add to that > some distributions BRAINDEAD default of havving colorgcc be the default > compiler (can you say fork perl to fork gcc? Can you say STUPID?), and ITYM "cute". As in "cute dancing pape

Re: Why does everyone hate gcc 2.95?

2000-10-03 Thread Larry McVoy
On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 04:28:41AM +, John Anthony Kazos Jr. wrote: > What does everyone have against gcc 2.95 on this list? I've been > compiling kernels successfully (read: not one single (ever) error > in compilation) with gcc 2.95.2 for more than a year now. What's the > big deal? [Fix yo

Why does everyone hate gcc 2.95?

2000-10-03 Thread John Anthony Kazos Jr.
What does everyone have against gcc 2.95 on this list? I've been compiling kernels successfully (read: not one single (ever) error in compilation) with gcc 2.95.2 for more than a year now. What's the big deal? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the bod