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Re: Disabling optimization
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Andrew Suffield |
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Re: Disabling optimization |
Date: |
Fri, 19 Nov 2004 16:43:07 +0000 |
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On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 09:43:30AM -0600, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> >> aCC: warning 901: unknown option: `-0': use +help for online
> >> documentation.
> >
> >I don't remember the last time I wrote anything that worked on HP-UX;
> >it's certainly not a platform I have any interest in supporting. I
> >mean, geez, next you'll be complaining that it doesn't work on VMS.
> >
> >If you're going to deal with freakish systems like this, then yes,
> >you're going to have to go to the lowest-common-denominator. But
> >that's no reason why those of us not stuck in the 1980s should care.
> >
> >For any feature you care to consider, ABSOLUTELY ANY FEATURE YOU HAVE
> >EVER USED, there exists a platform on which it does not work. That
> >does not mean you should not write any code.
>
> While I agree that from certain programming standpoints HP-UX leaves
> much to be desired it also happens to be one of the current dominant
> OSs of choice for big-iron Unix systems, and is therefore not an
> obscure "freakish" system.
All the HP-UX sysadmins I've encountered disagree with you on both
points (although 'dominant OSs of choice for <arbitrary undefined
group>' can mean just about anything). They generally only use it
because either (a) they can't afford a hardware upgrade, or (b) they
have some weird proprietary application that won't run on anything
else.
> My software works fine under HP-UX. You software should work under
> HP-UX as well.
What for? Nobody wants to use it there. It's a far better use of time
to do things people actually want.
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- Re: Disabling optimization, (continued)
- Re: Disabling optimization, jfasch, 2004/11/19
- Re: Disabling optimization, Andrew Suffield, 2004/11/19
- Re: Disabling optimization, jfasch, 2004/11/19
- Re: Disabling optimization, Andrew Suffield, 2004/11/19
- Re: Disabling optimization, Bob Friesenhahn, 2004/11/19
- Re: Disabling optimization, Thomas Dickey, 2004/11/19
- Re: Disabling optimization,
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- Re: Disabling optimization, Bob Friesenhahn, 2004/11/19
- Re: Disabling optimization, Stepan Kasal, 2004/11/18
- Re: Disabling optimization, Braden McDaniel, 2004/11/18