gdb on 3b1 up and running

[James Van Artsdalen]

In article <472 at genesis.ATT.COM>, andys at genesis.ATT.COM (59228-a.b.sherman) wrote:
> In article <5918 at bigtex.uucp> james at bigtex.UUCP (James Van Artsdalen) writes:

| And finally, you generally get better support from the GNU people *iff*
| you can send in reasonable bug reports.  I've never even seriously
| considered tracking down who in AT&T to report PCC bugs to.

> Compiler bugs (and other bugs in the UNIX(R) Operating System) may
> be reported to a hotline number.  (I'm at home and don't have the
> number handy).  Note that you are only entitled to hotline support

I don't own a Unix-PC at the moment.  The bugs I had in mind are in the
PCC for uPort/386.  In principle it should make no difference I would
think, but I doubt that a generic SysV binary license is what your
hotline people want.  I do think it weird that they don't take bugs
from all comers: any serious bug fixing effort would.

BTW: RMS's turn-around time on gcc bugs for me in the last week has
been about 12 hours.  Probably atypical since the 386 gcc support
was just released, but it's still vastly better than the last AT&T
I ever dealt with much, 3b2 support.

> Unlike Stallman, we do not believe that it is evil to charge money
> for the fruits of our R&D.  [...]

I agree that Stallman is something of a nut (albeit a very good and
prolific nut).  As a software developer, I don't think his schemes
would ever work on a large scale.  But that doesn't slow me down from
using the results of his efforts!
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