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Interview with Mark Mitchel, GCC's Release Engineer
ICC-Rocks writes "In light of the imminent release of the first 'stable' version of GCC version 3, OSNews features an interview with Mark Mitchel, GCC's Release Engineer. They are talking about GCC 3.x, the future and the competition."
GCC is the compiler du jour for minority hobby operating systems like Linux and BSD. It was invented as part of the GNU project as a replacement for proprietary tools such as Visual C[++] on Windows, and has done a fair job at keeping up.
A while back, there was a small uproar over the egcs compiler, a competing product, but when Linux bought out Egcs.com, for better or for worse, the two became one. Since then allegations have flown regarding the stability and security of GCC.
It looks like things are finally back on track for GCC, and I think we have everyone to thank.
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Please fix the page widening bug. I am prepared to
sacrifice this account to protest against your "it's
not my fault" attitude. You're happy enough to include
workarounds to fix bugs in Mozilla, why not IE?
See, it was fine so long as only -1 accounts widened
pages. Unfortunately, the behaviour of your co-editor
Michael Simms means we have to browse at -1 to see the
truth, as opposed to what you want us to see.
Just think what would happen if everyone had your
attitude... No workarounds, no interoperability... The
Internet would cease to function. Now grow up. Thankyou.
I am waiting to be modslapped. Those in favour who dare, mod this up as a protest against Jamie's childish behaviour.
Thankyou for your time.