"Fred" == Fred L Drake
writes:
Fred> Wasn't SunOS 4.x the problem child here? There are still Fred> a lot of people using these systems, for reasons that aren't Fred> clear to me. (Did support for some older hardware get Fred> dropped? Sounds like the most reasonable reason to use the Fred> old OS is legacy hardware.) There might be, but the bundled compiler in SunOS 4 was never intended to be used for anything more than recompiling the kernel. Years ago, I had conversations with Sun engineers who claimed that no bug in the bundled compiler was ever fixed unless it directly impacted on kernel rebuilds. Even back then they recommended using something other than the bundled crufty old K&R compiler for building all other stuff, and this was when there was that huge hoopla over the unbundling of the compiler. SunOS 4 users can probably be mostly satisfied with gcc. -Barry