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From: sns@genghis.UUCP (Sam Southard)
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Subject: Re: Easy way to remove binary groups
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Date: Mon, 27-Jul-87 10:57:18 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 27 10:57:18 1987
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Summary: it's not their idea
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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.
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