[4555] in Athena Bugs
[mrh%saber@harvard.harvard.edu: no -YPOSIX]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John T Kohl)
Sat Mar 17 20:49:22 1990
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 90 20:49:08 EST
From: John T Kohl <jtkohl@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
A reply to one of my Saber bug reports...close it in our DB, I guess.
John
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Date: Mon, 12 Mar 90 11:44:17 EST
From: mrh%saber@harvard.harvard.edu
To: jtkohl@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Subject: no -YPOSIX
Sorry, we're probably not going to implement it for Saber.
Especially when you've described such a simple workaround
documented on the cc man page. There's no such flag for the
Sun (I think).
There's a real problem making a product portable between all the
manufacturer's individual enhancements. We've been ugly ourselves
that way for this port: we already used the -G flag to mean load
without symbolic debugging information, and on the DECstation it
has an important meaning when followed by a number. My decision was
that since they don't conflict, keep them both. Even if it is
sorta confusing for people.
Mike Huben
Saber Software
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