Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcvax!hp4nl!eutrc3!euteal!mart From: mart@ele.tue.nl (Mart van Stiphout) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: BISON, GCC, and the GNU public license. (Re: increasing yacc states) Message-ID: <100@euteal.ele.tue.nl> Date: 3 Aug 89 08:07:51 GMT References: <26@ark1.nswc.navy.mil> <26759@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <5361@ficc.uu.net> <26880@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Lines: 34 In article <26880@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> mwm@eris.berkeley.edu (Mike (I'll think of something yet) Meyer) writes: >be rich. So if you're not a member of the privileged classes, you >have two choices: use the GNU tools and abide by their terms, or don't >use any tools at all. I need a lot more tools than gnu can provide me with. By the way, most tools I get from the gnu distribution already came with the system. Its totally redundant stuff. I'm glad not to be dependent on gnu software. >Of course, you're running sub-state-of-the-art hardware. Whereas GNU >software is aimed at beyond state-of-the-art hardware. As a result, it >sucks resources like crazy. On the other hand, the software production >utilities outperform commercial utilities for the same target >hardware. Don't make me laugh. We just bought some hp835 computers and I haven't seen gcc running on it. And if it would it certainly cannot generate faster code than hp's own compiler does. I haven't heard of gcc running on my Apollo and performing better than the Domain C compiler either. Have you got gcc running on our Alliant FX8 machine. No you haven't. And would it do better? I guess not. And don't tell me gcc is better than Sun's C compiler. It's probably because the Sun people can't write compilers rather than gcc being such a suberb tool. So what is all this crap of me being helpless without the gnu tape. I can do without gnu. I can't do without commercial software. Mart van Stiphout Email: mart@euteal.ele.tue.nl ------------------------------- It's not the fall that kills you, it's the sudden stop