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From: Bengt Kleberg <eleberg@cbe.ericsson.se>
Subject: Re: [9fans] GUI toolkit for Plan 9
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Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 12:03:57 +0100
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> From: "Thomas Bushnell, BSG" <tb+usenet@becket.net>


> Odd that NetBSD uses GCC, isn't it?  No, it's no great wonder why more
> people use GCC than 8c.  There are two reasons:
> 
> GCC generates better code
> GCC has a more liberal license than 8c.

There is also a third reason:
There are programs that use gcc features not present in any other c
compiler. So one needs atleast to have gcc. And once that is decided,
why bother with yet another c compiler?
(The same thing happens with gmake)


bengt