Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news
From: gil@snsys.com (Gil Jaysmith (Telecommuting))
Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.programming.gnu_compiler
Subject: Re: GNU error refrence?
Date: Mon, 02 Feb 1998 00:13:00 GMT
Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE)
Lines: 61
Message-ID: <34d50e1e.14333706@news.playstation.co.uk>
References: <6ahssr$4s31@emeka.playstation.co.uk> <34CE5A1B.1AA33B7E@virgin.net> <34cfb1b9.442177@news.playstation.co.uk> <34D3B7B2.6C0FF7B5@virgin.net>
NNTP-Posting-Host: th-eng04-017.pool.dircon.co.uk
X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.1/32.230

On Sat, 31 Jan 1998 23:45:54 +0000, Ian Thompson
<ian.thomson6@virgin.net> wrote:
>It seems that a prerequisite to have a love hate relationship with GNU
>before you can program with it.

You can't fail to have a love-hate relationship with a program whose
source includes the following lines (fortunately commented out by
someone before I got it):

#if 0
/* This was a fun hack, but #pragma seems to start to be useful.
   By failing to recognize it, we pass it through unchanged to cc1.
*/

/*
 * the behavior of the #pragma directive is implementation defined.
 * this implementation defines it as follows.
 */

static int
do_pragma ()
{
  close (0);
  if (open ("/dev/tty", O_RDONLY, 0666) != 0)
    goto nope;
  close (1);
  if (open ("/dev/tty", O_WRONLY, 0666) != 1)
    goto nope;
  execl ("/usr/games/hack", "#pragma", 0);
  execl ("/usr/games/rogue", "#pragma", 0);
  execl ("/usr/new/emacs", "-f", "hanoi", "9", "-kill", 0);
  execl ("/usr/local/emacs", "-f", "hanoi", "9", "-kill", 0);
nope:
  fatal ("You are in a maze of twisty compiler features, all
different");
}
#endif


... not to mention this amazing comment:


/* Return a newly allocated node of code CODE.
   Initialize the node's unique id and its TREE_PERMANENT flag.
   For decl and type nodes, some other fields are initialized.
   The rest of the node is initialized to zero.

   Achoo!  I got a code in the node.  */


I mean, really. **slap** **slap**

>If you do an error reference at some point please give me a post and I
>will be eternally grateful.

GCC 2.8.0 is due out soon (he says, having been saying that virtually
since joining SN). I don't see any problem with making available a
build of it for Yaroze owners, although it might also require enhanced
gas and ld. We'll see...

- Gil