Code freeze and first release candidate tagged

[Jim Gettys]

No, on Tru64, other compilers are used, as is for HP/UX, etc.
On some platforms, other C compilers have signficant performance
advantages at times.

We consider code that won't work on other compilers (of rational
behavior) a bug.
                          - Jim

On Mon, 2004-08-16 at 19:55, Stuart Kreitman wrote:
> Do you have a sense for how general the condition is?
> Does everyone outside of SUN use gcc, and if so, would you write an 
> internal bug to ask our code tools to increase the PIC table?
> 
> Question for other readers: Anyone using other than GNU tools?
> 
> 
> skk
> 
> Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> > The current tree does not build on Solaris/sparc.  I've filed this
> > bug to cover it:
> >     http://freedesktop.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1104
> > 
> > The patch attached to that bug fixed the errors so the build completed,
> > I'm testing a full make World now to make sure it got all the errors.
> > The patch only affects Imakefiles and only for the SPARC platform, so
> > there should be little risk of breaking any other platforms.
> > 
> > Any objections to this patch?
> > 
>