Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761594AbXJYPNK (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Oct 2007 11:13:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757206AbXJYPM4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Oct 2007 11:12:56 -0400 Received: from rv-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.198.185]:60322 "EHLO rv-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759288AbXJYPMz (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Oct 2007 11:12:55 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=jW0Y/Em7yMI/fJJ7WgJL7oCHquuwZHXDC54U62jyE/LV7m0E9oNIR6illLMblxAjzGCtjJZSl4aK8Y0eTtwBhaYaALwHG8H2oPn95GHAEchhKXMjYhczpQnzSXSYPYL13lDV6NXalg857DQV8yR7Ppcj1JNMctkmrhSOQ+qKCNo= Message-ID: <84144f020710250812u1875e1d3g85d60862ac613ea7@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 18:12:55 +0300 From: "Pekka Enberg" To: "Linus Torvalds" Subject: Re: Is gcc thread-unsafe? Cc: "Nick Piggin" , "Linux Kernel Mailing List" , "Kleen, Andi" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200710251324.49888.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 869a1c3378e6dff8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 941 Lines: 22 Hi, On 10/25/07, Linus Torvalds wrote: > I think the OpenBSD people decided to actually do something about this, > and I suspect it had *nothing* to do with license issues, and everything > to do with these kinds of problems. I wish them all the luck, although > personally I think LLVM is a much more interesting project. The BSD people are adopting pcc [1] which is a rewritten version of some C compiler originally developed in the late 70s. And yeah, it's basically because they think gcc is becoming too painful to live with [2]. Pekka 1. http://pcc.ludd.ltu.se/ 2. http://www.thejemreport.com/mambo/content/view/369/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/