Stampede

[Rafe Magnuson]

Ah, true. Platform dependencies. It was late, I hadn't thought of that.
Thankyou for your quick and well-thought-out replies!

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---- Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:
> begin  Rafe Magnuson quotation:
> > Ah, I should have waited about two more seconds before my last post,
> > as the information you present below is most useful. It brings me
> to
> > wonder though, why is egcs so much more portable than something like
> > pgcc?
> 
> That's a good question.  I wish I were a competent authority on
> compilers, since as things stand I lack the background to get this
> answer.  However, I'm sure the gcc development team would be able to
> explain matters, if one of us asks.
> 
> > Certainly I can see machines of the x86 class being of use still,
> > but don't most people have at the very least a pentium 1 class processor
> > (gasp! a p90! or a p60!)? Or am I missing the point entirely here?
> 
> Yes, but don't forget that the idea of gcc is to have a compiler
> portable across multiple CPU _architectures_, not just multiple
> generations of x86.  Alpha, m68k, PPC, StrongARM, PA-RISC, SPARC....
> 
> -- 
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> 

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