Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!mit.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: The portability sacred cow Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 14:03:22 +0200 Organization: http://www.ieee.org/ Lines: 23 Message-ID: <87lhut4nw5.fsf@gmail.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: mit.eternal-september.org; posting-host="b535f8eb1485563e71461ff7823810de"; logging-data="865"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/dj8FTCe2uX0/lCNaDgSxJNZxFhYQ2VOA=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:6AkErpT1zHl2SqY1AbAlvIUqUJA= sha1:65kcBP5k3dUxq51eWgs0bD6KDUk= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c:43550 Thomas Jahns writes: > On 04/25/14 04:21, Kenny McCormack wrote: >> Like it or not, MS's compilers are like the 800 pound gorilla. What they >> do (or don't do) matters. A lot. It's what people follow. > > I most certainly don't, I'm using pgcc, icc, gcc, xlc and clang on a > number of That's nice. But so what? > platforms, all of which support C99 (or will accept a bug-report if some part is > missing). Your 800 pound gorilla looks like some gray-haired, asthmatic animal, > unable to catch up with the herd, to me. Yes. Yes. And? No one cares. The majority use something else. > > Thomas -- "Avoid hyperbole at all costs, its the most destructive argument on the planet" - Mark McIntyre in comp.lang.c