From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.5 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, PP_MIME_FAKE_ASCII_TEXT,REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,UTF8 X-Google-Thread: 103376,85034d1ac78a66eb X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-02-24 10:37:49 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!unlnews.unl.edu!newsfeed.ksu.edu!nntp.ksu.edu!news.okstate.edu!not-for-mail From: David Starner Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada Operating System Date: 24 Feb 2002 17:15:50 GMT Organization: Oklahoma State University Message-ID: References: <5Tzc8.111999$H37.15018616@news2-win.server.ntlworld.com> <3C73F480.5010806@mail.com> <9ff447f2.0202220108.7f14c9bc@posting.google.com> <9ff447f2.0202222044.78c44b25@posting.google.com> <02FCLN2FFt9F@eisner.encompasserve.org> Reply-To: starner@okstate.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: x8b4e546f.dhcp.okstate.edu User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.3 (Linux) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:20336 Date: 2002-02-24T17:15:50+00:00 List-Id: On 23 Feb 2002 22:27:42 -0600, Larry Kilgallen 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. -- David Starner / Давид Старнэр - starner@okstate.edu What we've got is a blue-light special on truth. It's the hottest thing with the youth. -- Information Society, "Peace and Love, Inc."