From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
To: craig@jcb-sc.com
Cc: davem@redhat.com, mark@codesourcery.com, chip@perlsupport.com, egcs@egcs.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: Linux and aliasing?
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 15:43:00 -0000
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95.990604081542.4886C-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>
References: <19990604111824.19939.qmail@deer>
X-SW-Source: 1999-06n/msg00137.html
Message-ID: <19990630154300.siEJwuWnM8cHEvHapJESl7xiDyN8iByojgXrlBEOALs@z>

On 4 Jun 1999 craig@jcb-sc.com wrote:
> 
> Any programmer worth his salt, wanting "a laser-guided nightsight",
> and not wanting to tweak (or even rewrite) his code for every new
> compiler release, will *not* use a C compiler.  Period.

Oh?

That's a new argument. Instead of "don't use that feature", it's now
"don't do anything clever at all".

		Linus