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Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 15:57:59 -0400
From: Dan Cross <cross@math.psu.edu>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
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On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 01:02:30PM +1000, Andy Newman wrote:
> I like this quote from the glibc FAQ...
>
>     1.2. What compiler do I need to build GNU libc?
>
>     ...  A lot of extensions of GNU CC are used to increase portability ...

I remember a year or two picking up a Linux rag at the train station on the
way back from somewhere.  They were talking about gcc 4 or something in it
and saying how they were hoping to do away with a lot of GNU extensions by
stricter adherence to the language standards in the compiler itself; I guess
that work got buried.  Then again, this was a cursory read on the Subway,
and I'm slightly dyslexic, so maybe  read it the opposite way it was meant.

	- Dan C.