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Re: Commercial support on GCC/G++ open source versions
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Maurizio Loreti |
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Re: Commercial support on GCC/G++ open source versions |
Date: |
26 Feb 2005 07:57:29 +0100 |
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Paul Pluzhnikov <ppluzhnikov-nsp@charter.net> writes:
> You apparently do not yet comprehend amount of work that is sometimes
> required maintaining large bodies of code with numerous external
> dependencies, especially if said code must integrate with other
> products, some of which may only be available in binary form.
You have almost exectly described my work as a programmer in the last
36 years (I have started in 1969) -- apart from the fact that I don't
have to depend from "other products, some of which may only be
available in binary form".
My work is feasible because, e.g. at FNAL, we use strict ANSI Standard
C++. In the dark days of egcs and g++ 2.95, this meant not to use gcc
at all; we were linked to Kuck & Associates, Inc. (KAI) KCC. After
the first release of gcc 3, we started to investigate the
compatibility of our code with that compiler; most of the
incompatibilites were due to bad code. And, for the others, we had to
cooperate strictly with the gcc developement team; after that these
issues (the most of them regarding templates) have been solved, we
switched back from KCC to g++.
Nowadays nobody of us fears a new version of the compiler. Not only;
from what we see testing the snapshots of g++ version 4, we WOULD LIKE
to have the new compiler soon available in a stable version.
I don't mind what other people think about me; I said that the best
solution for the OP is to upgrade to an up-to-date g++. If his code
is not Standard, or if he depends from non-Standard code distributed
in a binary form, well, he has done a very bad choice and he in on its
own.
--
Maurizio Loreti http://www.pd.infn.it/~loreti/mlo.html
Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Padova, Italy ROT13: ybergv@cq.vasa.vg
- Commercial support on GCC/G++ open source versions, Jesse, 2005/02/24
- Re: Commercial support on GCC/G++ open source versions, Maurizio Loreti, 2005/02/24
- Re: Commercial support on GCC/G++ open source versions, Jesse, 2005/02/24
- Re: Commercial support on GCC/G++ open source versions, Maurizio Loreti, 2005/02/25
- Re: Commercial support on GCC/G++ open source versions, Maurizio Loreti, 2005/02/25
- Re: Commercial support on GCC/G++ open source versions, Paul Pluzhnikov, 2005/02/25
- Re: Commercial support on GCC/G++ open source versions,
Maurizio Loreti <=
- OT Verifying code across gcc versions [Re: Commercial support on GCC/G++ open source versions], Paul Pluzhnikov, 2005/02/26
- Re: OT Verifying code across gcc versions [Re: Commercial support on GCC/G++ open source versions], Paul Pluzhnikov, 2005/02/26
- Re: OT Verifying code across gcc versions [Re: Commercial support on GCC/G++ open source versions], Maurizio Loreti, 2005/02/27
- Re: OT Verifying code across gcc versions [Re: Commercial support on GCC/G++ open source versions], Paul Pluzhnikov, 2005/02/27
- Re: OT Verifying code across gcc versions [Re: Commercial support on GCC/G++ open source versions], Maurizio Loreti, 2005/02/27
Re: Commercial support on GCC/G++ open source versions, Wim Lauwers, 2005/02/25