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Help! I need to convince a rather large and conservative bunch of engineers
that they should begin using GCC to maintain and extend their software. It runs
on 36 UNIX platforms. Very few of these vendors include an ANSI 'C' compiler,
so GCC seems to be the only way to support ANSI code across all these systems
(the INSTALL notes indicate it will work for 30 of them, the other 6 are
probables). So, I need reasons... _tons_ of reasons... for example, just how
great is ANSI 'C', anyway? And how about GCC... will using it make their soft-
ware run faster? Slower? Will they be able to use their existing tools with it
(SCCS, lint, yacc, various debuggers, EMACS :-)? And most of all, they want
assurances that it won't break any of their code. They are correctly terrified
of buggy compilers... can I reassure them that their system will run at least
as well as it did, without any tweaking? Will using GCC across all platforms
simplify porting? Help me bring our code into the 1990's! Thank you thank you
thank you...
  -James-

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