On Sun, 22 Feb 2015 16:26:11 -0600
"T.J. Duchene" <t.j.duchene@???> wrote:

> The only truth that I can be certain of from reading this is that GCC
> works best only on x86 processors, and that has not changed in nearly
> 2 decades. It is also true that a lot of opensource code, even the
> Linux kernel, presently only compiles properly on GCC, rather than
> others such as Clang/LLVM.

My philosopher as a free software author is this: The buck stops with
me. If my software screws up, it's my fault and my responsibility to
fix, regardless of the actual root cause is in code I wrote or a tool I
use.

If I were having problems with two different compilers treating my code
two different ways, I'd #ifdef the hell out of it to kludge it back to
working order on both.

But that's just me. I've seen a lot of free software authors say "hey,
it's not my fault, it's the ______ library or tool. Doesn't help the
user a heck of a lot.

SteveT

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