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From: Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
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Subject: Re: Extending C with GC?
Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2016 18:56:08 -0700
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BartC <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
> On 08/08/2016 00:12, Keith Thompson wrote:
>> BartC <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
>
>> I downloaded
>>     http://www.hboehm.info/gc/gc_source/gc-7.4.4.tar.gz
>> It does not have "two different versions one inside the other".
>> I have no idea how you concluded that there are 500 .h and .c files;
>> there are only 105.
>
> There were ~500 files of all kinds in both versions together, of which 
> 258 were .c or .h.

What on Earth are you talking about?  What do you mean by "both
versions"?

    $ ls -l gc-7.4.4.tar.gz
    -rw-r--r-- 1 kst kst 1103245 Jun  8 08:34 gc-7.4.4.tar.gz
    $ tar xf gc-7.4.4.tar.gz
    $ find gc-7.4.4 -type f | wc -l
    201
    $ find gc-7.4.4 -type f -name '*.[ch]' | wc -l
    105
    $

[...]

> But it is unreasonable to expect people to go out of their way to 
> install MSYS or CYGWIN or whatever is needed to make it work under Windows

You have difficulty building software from source on Windows.
What do you expect us to do about it, especially when you reject
anything we suggest?  It's not a C programming issue.  Please find
someplace else to ask about it.

[...]

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Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org  <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
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