From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Message-ID: <00051030831937df16f3d8f591047d8e@plan9.ucalgary.ca>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] "ridiculous benchmarks"-r-us
From: mirtchov@cpsc.ucalgary.ca
In-Reply-To: <473f99eea04976b0758b7170409ea0d8@terzarima.net>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Date: Fri,  9 Jan 2004 13:48:35 -0700
Topicbox-Message-UUID: b6317762-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025

> worse, i've had gcc fanatics work themselves up into a terrible
> state about how presumptious it was for Plan 9 C to add its own extensions.
> since i've historically been troubled more by bugs in gcc than
> bugs in Plan 9's C, i've not been much impressed.

The last sentence of this page is indicative:

	http://www.gnome.org/projects/ORBit2/orbit-docs/orbit/x166.html

quote:

	If ORBit2 2.7 does not compile with some commercial C
	compilers, this is because it uses a number of gcc extensions
	which are not supported elsewhere.  you can always download
	gcc and install that for it to work.

What's puzzling is why ORBit is such an important program that is
can't live without the gcc extensions?