Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!crdgw1!uunet!mcsun!ukc!warwick!nott-cs!dpg From: dpg@cs.nott.ac.uk (Dave Gymer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: gcc 1.40 Message-ID: <1991Jun21.084623.8632@cs.nott.ac.uk> Date: 21 Jun 91 08:46:23 GMT References: <1991Jun18.081500.851@cs.nott.ac.uk> Organization: Nottingham University Lines: 31 In article bammi@acae127.cadence.com (Jwahar R. Bammi) writes: >In article <1991Jun18.081500.851@cs.nott.ac.uk> dpg@cs.nott.ac.uk (Dave Gymer) writes: >> After all the recent discussion about the forthcoming release of gcc 1.40 > gcc-1.40 for the St is already our there. see update10.zoo on >atari.archive I don't have time at the moment to get sources. If I did I wouldn't be worried about... >> on the ST, I'd like to make an appeal to those who are actually doing the >> work: please, please, please make sure that it does NOT mangle filenames > huh, all you got to do is set the env variable UNIXMODE >appropriately. see UNIXMODE.doc in the lib sources. it will be >perfectly happy to use the other env variables (GNULIB etc) with >forward slashes in them. Can't we get away from this UNIXMODE thing, a la Eric Smith's MiNT library? It does seem silly to have two diverging libraries when one would suffice. I do _not_ use your library (because I'm a MiNTer), so I don't have any info on UNIXMODE. The foward slashes are not a problem, it's the fact that all the names are truncated to fit 8.3 and converted to uppercase. These are fairly small gripes, but when they're so easily avoided, why do we need the extra hassle? Here's hoping for gcc 2.00... :-) -- /* 'Grave' Dave Gymer --------- Internet: dpg@Cs.Nott.AC.UK *\ +* 42 St Marys Park, Louth, Lincolnshire, LN11 0EF, England *+ +* Olivier's Law: "Experience is something you don't get *+ \*-------------------------- until just after you need it." */