Re: Date and Time Handling Functions in other languages

[Trond Eivind Glomsrød]

Sasha Pachev <sasha@stripped> writes:

> On Saturday 03 November 2001 11:05 am, Daniel BODEA wrote:
> > >šWorks for me without a problem.
> > >šWhat gcc version do you use ? Not 2.96, I hope ?
> > >š(that's the reason to CC - I don't know what gcc comes with RH7.1)
> > 
> > Yes it's 2.96 but I've seen a note from RedHat saying that even if it's not
> > an official GCC release, faulty code generation is mainly due to
> > non-standard coding styles.
> 
> Unfortunately, what RH calls "non-standard coding styles" is widely used in a 
> lot of packages. And this is no excuse for shipping a compiler that produces 
> broken code.

Let's be more precise here - this isn't about gnerating bad
code. The issues with "non-standard coding styles"  are about 2.96RH
(and 3.0, for that matter) rejecting non-standards compliant
code. It's a lot stricter than earlier compilers.


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Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Red Hat, Inc.