On 23 Feb 2002 22:27:42 -0600, Larry Kilgallen <Kilgallen@SpamCop.net> wrote:
>>> "Some form of Unix (or DOS or Windows or VMS)" seems to me quite a
>>> bit shy of "every platform known to man".  It omits HP/MPE, MVS
>>> and OS/400.  
>> 
>> That's why "runs some form of ..." modifies "every platform known to
>> man". (And GCC does target MVS.) True, GCC doesn't handle archaic
>> systems and misses some Big Iron. In any case, since we're talking
>> compilers here, do you know of another compiler that targets Unix, DOS,
>> Windows and VMS non-trivially?
> 
> I agree that GCC also makes great toast and coffee for breakfast,
> so long as you like both cold and extremely weak.

In other words, because GCC doesn't support two platforms, the fact that
it supports a hundred others garners no awards.

As for reality, for all the support, nobody who has a MVS system
bothered to build it and follow the build instructions to send an email
to gcc@gcc.gnu.org. In fact the list of systems where people have done
so is limited to, hmm, Linux, Cygwin, the major proprietary Unixes, and
. . . a few of the minor Unixes. There's a major Mac group hacking on
the compiler, and many embedded/real-time hackers, but the number of
people who mail the list over something else can be counted on one paw.

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