🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <MUTS.93Nov13001723@compi.hobby.nl>, muts@compi.hobby.nl (Peter
Mutsaers) writes:
|> >> On Wed, 10 Nov 1993 21:15:58 GMT, przemek@rrdbartok.nist.gov
|> >> (Przemek Klosowski) said:
|> 
|>   PK> Would Workshop and SGI cc use proprietary extensions to the
|>   PK> executable format?  Does anyone know if there is a patch or
|>   PK> workaround to be used with gcc?
|> 
|> SGI uses proprietary extensions more and more, and I am beginning to
|> regret more and more that we ever bought SGI. There is no workaround
|> as far as I know.
|> -- 
|> _______________________________________________________________
|> Peter Mutsaers, Bunnik (Ut), the Netherlands.

  After reading the original posting I would like to add two comments:

a) I believe it is reasonable that SGI (we) can only support our
   own products. GCC is great (especially in situations where the
   vendor supplied compiler is not that good ), but the GNU people
   cannot cover all the special cases. I once posted an article on
   a similar topic where I concluded: "if you want GCC on more
   platforms and more compatible to specific environments, sponsor
   the FSF." This is still true. Not SGI is wrong, but FSF/GNU has
   not enough resources (IMO) to keep up with the latest development.

b) On extensions: if something in a standard (like COFF or ELF) is
   insufficient or broken, fix it or extend the standard. Otherwise
   you end up with inferior stuff. What do you (Peter M.) want?
   Top tools like WorkShop, or just crummy 'dbx'.


Opinions are mine and so on.

Martin
-- 
+---------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
|Martin Knoblauch                 | Silicon Graphics GmbH             |
|Application Support              | Am Hochacker 3 - Technopark       |
|Silicon Graphics Computer Systems| D-85630 Grasbrunn-Neukeferloh, FRG|
|                                 | Phone: (+int) 89 46108-179 or -0  |
|                                 | Fax:   (+int) 89 46108-190 (-222) |
+---------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
|Network: <knobi@sgi.com>         | V-Mail: 5-8935 | M/S: IMU-315     |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------+