Re: My patches to muttzilla

[Bob B. <bo...@zk...>]

On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 01:41:02PM -0700, Brian D. Winters <bri...@pt...> wrote:
> >     - Changed copyright string for Tru64's compiler
> 
> I wonder if gcc is broken in allowing embedded newlines in strings, or
> are all of the unix vendors (well, Compaq, Sun and SGI at least)
> shipping horribly outdated and limited cc's?  My GNU bias makes me
> think it is the latter, but I haven't actually read the C standards to
> be sure.

    As a user of both, I think I have a balanced perspective.  To be
honest, Compaq's cc is quite good.  It produces *much* better code than
gcc and is very standards compliant (evidence: some Linux-Alpha Beowulf
clusters run one DEC/Compaq machine to compile code on).  Often, gcc has
a lot of extensions to the standards and lets a lot of non-compliant
code go by without so much as a warning.

    That said, I haven't read the C standard on it.

-- 
Bob Bell <bo...@zk...>
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