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From: Andrew Haley <aph@...>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...>
Cc: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@...>, <linux-kernel@...>
Subject: Re: Is gcc thread-unsafe?
Date: Friday, October 26, 2007 - 11:34 am

Linus Torvalds writes:
 
 > So my basic worry about gcc is in fact none of the individual
 > technical problems themselves - those can be fixed. No, the problem
 > I've seen in gcc is that _some_ of the developers seem to be total
 > d*ckheads when it comes to "language definition", and seem to think
 > that it's more important to read the language spec like a lawyer
 > than it is to solve actual user problems.

Well, yeah.  I know what you mean.  However, at this moment, some gcc
developers are trying really hard not to be total d*ckheads about this
issue, but get gcc fixed.  Give us a chance.

Andrew.

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Re: Is gcc thread-unsafe?, Bart Van Assche, (Fri Oct 26, 10:40 am)
Re: Is gcc thread-unsafe?, Linus Torvalds, (Fri Oct 26, 11:27 am)
Re: Is gcc thread-unsafe?, Linus Torvalds, (Fri Oct 26, 12:28 pm)
Re: Is gcc thread-unsafe?, Bart Van Assche, (Fri Oct 26, 1:07 pm)
Re: Is gcc thread-unsafe?, Alan Cox, (Fri Oct 26, 2:08 pm)
Re: Is gcc thread-unsafe?, Andi Kleen, (Fri Oct 26, 4:39 pm)
Re: Is gcc thread-unsafe?, Linus Torvalds, (Fri Oct 26, 2:14 pm)
Re: Is gcc thread-unsafe?, Andrew Haley, (Fri Oct 26, 1:12 pm)
Re: Is gcc thread-unsafe?, Linus Torvalds, (Fri Oct 26, 1:25 pm)
Re: Is gcc thread-unsafe?, Linus Torvalds, (Fri Oct 26, 11:09 am)
Re: Is gcc thread-unsafe?, Giacomo Catenazzi, (Fri Oct 26, 5:45 pm)
Re: Is gcc thread-unsafe?, Linus Torvalds, (Fri Oct 26, 6:24 pm)
Re: Is gcc thread-unsafe?, Andrew Haley, (Fri Oct 26, 11:34 am)
RE: Is gcc thread-unsafe?, David Schwartz, (Fri Oct 26, 2:06 pm)
RE: Is gcc thread-unsafe?, Andrew Haley, (Tue Oct 30, 6:20 am)
Re: Is gcc thread-unsafe?, Bart Van Assche, (Fri Nov 2, 11:29 am)
RE: Is gcc thread-unsafe?, David Schwartz, (Fri Nov 2, 1:18 pm)
Re: Is gcc thread-unsafe?, Andrew Haley, (Fri Nov 2, 11:38 am)
Re: Is gcc thread-unsafe?, Bart Van Assche, (Sun Nov 4, 11:13 am)
Re: Is gcc thread-unsafe?, Linus Torvalds, (Sun Nov 4, 1:45 pm)
Re: Is gcc thread-unsafe?, Bart Van Assche, (Sun Nov 4, 2:06 pm)
Re: Is gcc thread-unsafe?, Andrew Haley, (Sun Nov 4, 1:58 pm)