Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!ll-xn!cit-vax!genghis!sns From: sns@genghis.UUCP (Sam Southard) Newsgroups: news.admin,news.groups Subject: Re: Easy way to remove binary groups Message-ID: <174@genghis.UUCP> Date: Mon, 27-Jul-87 10:57:18 EDT Article-I.D.: genghis.174 Posted: Mon Jul 27 10:57:18 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 28-Jul-87 02:59:12 EDT References: <266@brandx.rutgers.edu> <8225@utzoo.UUCP> <272@brandx.rutgers.edu> <2524@hoptoad.uucp> Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena Lines: 26 Summary: it's not their idea Xref: mnetor news.admin:732 news.groups:1292 In article <2524@hoptoad.uucp>, gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) writes: > PS: Webber's offer sounds magnificent to me. The guys who are complaining > that it doesn't have libraries, ANSI, etc...why don't YOU contribute something > to the effort? Because they are satisfied with the C compiler they have. It's not their project, so why should they work on it? Webber said he would write it as some sort of solution to the problem of posting binaries (I would rather have all postings be source, also, but let's be realistic). Since he's bothered with the situation, let him fix it. As long as I'm here, I might as well put my two cents in. I do most, if not all, of my work on a PC/AT. A lot of the sources that are put out make some assumptions about sizeof(int) among other things. They won't work on the AT with the Lattice C or Microsoft C under DOS or the Xenix C compiler (I have all three). It's not the fault of the compiler, but the assumptions of the author (to avoid flames, I'd like to be able to make such assumptions, and they are not unreasonable. Unfortunately, the are also not valid for the AT). Unless you can regulate the source of all the postings, a PD compiler won't help much. Unless, of course, Webber's compiler will support all the assumptions made by a lot of the programs (BSD, sizeof(int), etc.) at least one binary group will have to stay, comp.binaries.ibm.pc. -- Sam Southard, Jr. {sns@genghis.caltech.edu|sns@genghis.uucp|{backbone}!cit-vax!genghis!sns}