🚀 go-pugleaf

    Ian T. Zimmerman writes:

>I am really, really fed up. I moved to ELF something like 2 months ago
>and since then it seems I haven't done anything else but downloading
>and upgrading. 

    I've just about reached my limit with gcc/Linux too.  Linux seems
wonderful, but gcc for Linux is the worst compiler I have ever used.
Version 2.7.0 crashed with an internal error and signal 11 (SIGSEGV)
when I tried to compile its own source code during g77 installation!
I installed the binaries for v2.7.2, but when I built the binaries for
a C++ numerical library (newmat08) the example program crashes.  When
I set a breakpoint in the DDD debugger at the point in the code where it
crashes I get an internal error in DDD when the program runs to that
point.  The version of xxgdb that came with my Linux distribution suffers
from character doubling.  If I use any optimization at all when compiling
newmat08 gcc crashes with an internal compiler error.

    I've been trying to get Linux (Slackware 3.0) to the point where I
can get some work done for a month now, and I just keep uncovering more
bugs.  (And I haven't even gotten to the point where I start using
g77.)  Most of the problems are with gcc.  If gcc were a commercial
product FSF would go out of business very quickly.  gcc makes
Microsoft's compilers look good.

    I'm ready to go back to Windows NT and try Watcom's compilers.
(I switched to Linux after trying Microsoft's compilers for mixed
language programming.  They simply don't work.)  The other alternative
is to use my 120 MHz pentium as a terminal and telnet to a real UNIX
machine for my work.

    Linux isn't fit for any real work at this point in time due to
the lack of a decent compiler.

Dean Schulze