vmware 4.0 on Fedora?
Fritz Whittington
f.whittington at att.net
Sat Jan 3 18:50:44 UTC 2004
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:
>
>
>>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!
>>
>>
>
>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.
>
>
>
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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