Re: Does this model work ?

[Andi Kleen <ak-uu@muc.de>]

Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com> writes:
> 
> For an example of a highly portable C program, consider the
> gcc compiler itself. This is one of the portable benchmarks
> in the Spec suite, and runs unchanged on all targets with C
> compilers that run Spec (which is essentially 100% of all
> C compatible targets).

[getting off-topic]

Although many would argue that GCC is more writen in some kind of
Lisp in C, than C @)

For example the representation of RTL, the internal code representation, 
seems to near completely ignore even the weak static typing C mandates (this 
is shown by the thousands of warnings during a gcc bootstrap).

Given that it is surprising that gcc is as portable as it is. 

I would definitely not see it as an example of a typical C program! All of
it is very un-C-ish. 

-Andi
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