On Mon, 9 Jul 2018, Matt Milosevic wrote:
I tend to agree with Chris on this. Whether we like it or not, GCC is
an
integral part of the Unix environment and most things we care about utilize
it in some aspect, even when it's not immediately obvious. Attempting to
forcefully bring in an alternate compiler would undoubtedly break a great
deal of things.
Who said ** anything ** about more than a virtual provide,
which will do ... nothing more than put in place a portable
way to test for breakage ???
To the contrary, widely hard-coding
BR: gcc
locks OUT such efforts to track down 'gcc-isms'
-- Russ herrold