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Article #6112Re: gcc's year 2000 compliance
From: Corey Kosak
Date: Tue, 03 Dec 1996 00:00
Date: Tue, 03 Dec 1996 00:00
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Top 16 potential FSF responses to the Year 2000 Compliance question:
15) Richard Stallman has predicted that the world will end in 1999.
14) Richard Stallman has predicted that HPUX will end in 1999.
13) Comply with THIS, pal!
12) A Y2K patch is available from Cygnus Support but has not been
inlcuded in the official distribution due to disagreements over
implementation.
11) For $100,000 I'll guarantee Year 2000 compliance.
10) GNU g++ is Y2K-compliant when used with the GNU Hurd. The FSF
is no longer devoting resources to supporting lesser operating systems.
9) Use #pragma Y2KCompliant. Case is important.
8) Thanks to the power of object-oriented programming, you merely have
to make all your classes inherit from Compliant::year<2000>
7) Sorry, we're still working on the year 1991 problem.
6) The year 2000 is only 3 years away. We at the FSF do not concern
ourselves with the near-term. You and your problems are irrelevant.
5) The Y2K patch will be distributed under a new version of the GNU
license that gives us full rights to all code produced by gcc in
perpetuity.
4) While ANSI C++ itself is not Y2K compliant, GNU g++ has several non-
standard extensions that make it compliant. These extensions are
enabled via the command-line switch --fenable-year-two-thousand-compliance
3) We've fixed it for Lignux. Sorry, what's "aitch peee yewww exxx"?
2) Y2K compliance is still being finalized by the standards committee;
the final specification is expected in 2003.
1) AS OF THIS MORNING THIS IS NOW AN OFFICIAL MICROSOFT VC++ 4.0
DEVELOPER FORUM. WE BOUGHT GNU. ALL OF THEM. HAVE A NICE DAY.
0) The year 2000 problem has been solved since gcc 2.4.5. We are now
working on the year 4294967296 problem.
---from your friends at the CMU School of Computer Science
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 113d02,abd931f81dbcec1f X-Google-Attributes: gid113d02,public From: kosak+@cmu.edu (Corey Kosak) Subject: Re: gcc's year 2000 compliance Date: 1996/12/03 Message-ID: <199612030634.BAA00891@gnu-life.ai.mit.edu> X-Deja-AN: 202032369 sender: Corey_Kosak@adonis.nectar.cs.cmu.edu x-gateway: relay2.UU.NET from bug-gcc to gnu.gcc.bug; Tue, 3 Dec 1996 01:35:02 EST newsgroups: gnu.gcc.bug