From: Paul Serice <paul@serice.net>
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 19:14:17 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Avoid C++ comments, use C comments instead
Message-ID: <44B2A709.8020500@serice.net>
In-Reply-To: <20060710114117.GA62514@dspnet.fr.eu.org>

> 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