Re: [ros-kernel] Cleanup

[Casper H. <ch...@us...>]

tor, 2002-05-30 kl. 18:47 skrev Iain Shigeoka:
> On 5/29/02 6:09 PM, "Rex Jolliff" <re...@lv...> wrote:
> 
> The OpenWatcom.org project is using it and the watcom compiler project may
> be a great partner for reactos (ming always feels like a poor second cousin
> to a native windows compiler)...
> 
> Anyhow, just a suggestion.

We have several advantages when using/supporting only gcc/binutils. they
are present on a lot of platforms. This means less work for us when we
expand to these platforms.

By supporting only one compiler we don't have to be so strict about
about following every standard out there or have workarounds for missing
features of other compilers. We can use gcc specific features because we
know they are there. If you look at binutils and gcc projects which must
compile with many different compilers and versions of those, you will
see that there are many guidelines that must be followed when submitting
patches to these projects. This is one reason (of many), that it is
difficult to get patches into these projects.

GCC is not just a C/C++ compiler. It is designed to have "plugin"
frontends written for it to support many languages. When the GPC
frontend is included in the official releases, there really is no valid
reasons left for keeping Pascal programmers away from ReactOS anymore.

- Casper