From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paul Serice Subject: Re: [PATCH] Avoid C++ comments, use C comments instead Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 14:14:17 -0500 Message-ID: <44B2A709.8020500@serice.net> References: <20060710065751.22902.43316.stgit@dv.roinet.com> <7vzmfhdhrf.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <20060710094653.GA52962@dspnet.fr.eu.org> <20060710114117.GA62514@dspnet.fr.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Johannes Schindelin , Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Jul 10 21:14:20 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G01Cm-00059p-9N for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 10 Jul 2006 21:14:04 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422786AbWGJTOA (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Jul 2006 15:14:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1422787AbWGJTOA (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Jul 2006 15:14:00 -0400 Received: from serice.org ([206.123.107.184]:3600 "EHLO serice.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422786AbWGJTN7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Jul 2006 15:13:59 -0400 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by serice.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E35B1580F8; Mon, 10 Jul 2006 14:13:58 -0500 (CDT) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.8 (X11/20060502) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: Olivier Galibert In-Reply-To: <20060710114117.GA62514@dspnet.fr.eu.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.92.1.0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: > Given than you can find gcc on pretty much everything that has a > filesystem cache decent enough to handle git correctly, is this cost > worth it? _That_ was the question. I've seen this argument before. Unfortunately it seems reasonable enough on the surface, and I actually bought into it much to may later regret. My experience is that gcc often produces buggy code, and if gcc is not _the_ compiler for that platform, those bugs do not get fixed. Specifically, I have had lots of problems with gcc and IRIX. If you want to write portable code, you have to take into account different operating systems _and_ different compilers. Writing your code for just a single compiler is almost as bad as writing your code for just a single operating system. Paul Serice