vmware 4.0 on Fedora?

[Fritz Whittington]

On or about 2004-01-03 12:29, Davy Brion whipped out a trusty #2 pencil 
and scribbled:

>On Sat, 2004-01-03 at 18:23, Fritz Whittington wrote:
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>>Thanks for the info!   I got a real chuckle out of that! :-) So, they 
>>use what they know to be good, but provide us poor shmucks who are 
>>compiling our own programs with a compiler they don't trust!  Obviously, 
>>when I run into a confusing bug in one of my own programs, the first 
>>thing I should do is compile it with gcc32, and see if the bug goes 
>>away!  What a great way to debug a new compiler!
>>    
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>it's not that they don't trust gcc 3.3.  gcc 3.3 is probably a better
>compiler than gcc 3.2.  But the kernel just doesn't compile with gcc
>3.3.  That's it...  The reason it doesn't compile with gcc 3.3 is not
>because gcc 3.3 is not trustworthy, it's just stricter than 3.2
>
>if anything, blame the kernel guys who still have code that doesn't
>compile on a stricter compiler.
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Thanks to all of you.  I think I've got the Big Picture now.   As often 
happens, the Real Reason is a little different from the Official Reason:

>> Q. Why is the kernel compiled with gcc32 ?
>> A. It's a known-to-be-good compiler. The compiler used for everything
>>    else (3.3.2 as shipped with FC1) is somewhat newer.
>


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Fritz Whittington
TI Alum - http://www.tialumni.org

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