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From: "Thomas Bushnell, BSG" <tb+usenet@becket.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] GUI toolkit for Plan 9
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 16:41:27 +0000
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eleberg@cbe.ericsson.se (Bengt Kleberg) writes:

> 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)

Yes, that's true.  (Ironically, the GNU Project generally prohibits
the use of gcc-specific extensions in its software in order to
encourage greater portibility.)