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From: ronald@robobar.co.uk (Ronald S H Khoo)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Xenix 386 Out of memory
Message-ID: <1990Dec2.194050.7680@robobar.co.uk>
Date: 2 Dec 90 19:40:50 GMT
References: <270@carssdf.UUCP> <455@oha.UUCP>
Followup-To: probably.not.comp.lang.perl.please.edit.as.suitable.
Organization: Robobar Ltd., Perivale, Middx., ENGLAND.
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[ this has nothing to do with perl anymore, but just contains an
  apology.  Please edit followups as appropriate -- I've redirected
  them into outer space ]
   
tony@oha.UUCP (Tony Olekshy) writes:
 
In message <1990Nov30.202510.23438@robobar.co.uk> I wrote, rather carelessly:

> > I used gcc -O -fpcc-struct-return.  Anyone who uses MSC's gotta be
> > completely out of their minds unless they 1) need MS-DOG compatibility
> > or 2) are masochists or 3) are using Xenix-86 or Xenix-286.

> Well, I'd like to comment on this, but obviously I have to take some time
> off to get back into my mind.

Eh... I didn't *intend* to insult anyone, but it looks like I have.
It *was* meant to be half humorous, but I guess reading it again,
it doesn't sound it.  Please accept my apologies.  Seriously though,
gcc does compile net.sources a whole lot more cleanly than MSC does,
and often more correctly (witness MSC's silent but devastating miscompilation
of C News's dbz.c when -O is switched on.  Reduction of error messages
to those that actually *mean* something does help me tremendously.

Binaries of GCC precompiled for Xenix 386 with native support for
Microsoft's version of Intel OMF (Xenix .o file format, so no messing
about with libc.a required, and there's a GDB binary in the tarfile too)
are available for ftp from various places including
unix.secs.oakland.edu, so it's not that much of a hassle to install gcc
on a 386 Xenix box.

But I should have not sounded like that.  Apologies are therefore in order to
Tony and anyone else who was similarly offended.  Sorry.
-- 
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