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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,1d8ab55e71d08f3d X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,1efdd369be089610 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Simon Wright Subject: Re: what DOES the GPL really say? Date: 1997/08/27 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 268641100 References: <5ph4g5$sbs$1@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <34032CE9.77E@link.com> <5u11n0$emm@fg70.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> X-NNTP-Posting-Host: pogner.demon.co.uk [158.152.70.98] Organization: At Home Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,gnu.misc.discuss Date: 1997-08-27T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: ig25@fg70.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Thomas Koenig) writes: > In gnu.misc.discuss, dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) wrote: > > [egcs] > > >As for ACT joining in? Joining in what? > > Faster code on RISC machines, for one thing. The egcs project uses a new > scheduler which is a big win for certain architectures, such as Pentium, > RS/6000 and HP/PA. > > Don't your customers want that? As someone who is about to become a customer, I think that (so long as the generated code is fast enough) I would rather not have to worry about its reliability. In fact our projects would probably much rather stick with a known release and work round problems than try to keep up with the hunt. I realise that that may not be possible (it always has been so far). -- Simon Wright Work Email: simon.j.wright@gecm.com GEC-Marconi Radar & Defence Systems Voice: +44(0)1705-701778 Command & Information Systems Divsion FAX: +44(0)1705-701800