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From: mra@srchtec.UUCP (Michael Almond)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: gcc for MS-DOS
Message-ID: <374@srchtec.UUCP>
Date: 11 Dec 90 14:01:52 GMT
References: <3105@uc.msc.umn.edu>
Reply-To: mra@srchtec.UUCP (Michael Almond)
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In article <3105@uc.msc.umn.edu> kenny@uh.msc.umn.edu (Kenneth R. Goers) writes:
>
>Mellow people,
>
>Just to protect the person porting GCC, I'd like to tell all you
>bufoons to lay off him.  GCC works fine for me.  I've ported a couple
>programs to DOS already that would not run under it previously, even
>recompiled gcc.  And the guy posting about it out did say it was a
>pre-release, not the real thing.  With all the warped clones out
>there, I'd say it's quite a while before it works on a majority of
>them.
>
>I still can't understand people bitching about something that's free.

I agree.

The source code to GNU gcc is freely avialable, unlike a lot of software
for the IBM-PC.  If you find the compiler not functioning on your system,
just get a hold of the source and dig in.


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