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Arthur Bergman: > it would be fine if it wasn't for the GODAMN ANAL LINKER that AIX uses! No, it's that gcc is a complete and utter bloody joke. It will compile and link almost anything. It would probably compile Perl without too much modification and wouldn't even emit that many warnings. Look! Look at this! *&(int)f = 1; Is that C? I don't fucking think so. And look at this: FILE * concat_fopen (char *s1, char *s2, char *mode) { char str[strlen (s1) + strlen (s2) + 1]; ... } Yes, that's supposed to be C, not C++, because the things they've done to C++ are almost bloody unspeakable. The words "embrace" and "extend" come to mind. How about this, for instance: It is very convenient to have operators which return the "minimum" or the "maximum" of two arguments. In GNU C++ (but not in GNU C), a <? b is the minimum, returning the smaller of the numeric values a and b; a >? b is the maximum, returning the larger of the numeric values a and b. What? What the hell is that about? And you know the worst thing? People actually use these abortions in real code, because obviously, if it compiles on Linux with gcc, it'll compile anywhere. That's why you're having problems linking on AIX - because nobody's even thought about AIX before. We use autoconf, right, so it must be portable? Yeah, fucking right. Portable between GNU OSes, I think you'll find. Part of the reason Parrot 0.0.1 was so slow getting out of the door was because of all these stupid idiots writing GCC "C" and not realising how completely fucking broken it was. Of course, number one stupid idiot was myself, but the point remains, dammit!
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