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On Tuesday 09 May 2017 14:29:16 Walter Dnes wrote: |
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> It's a feature, not a bug. <G> There's a news item being worked on in |
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> the Gentoo dev list. I'd normally just link to a mail archive, but it's |
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> too new to have been archived yet. Here's a copy of the proposed news |
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> item. |
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(Quoting order changed.) |
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Sorry, Walter, but I just couldn't let this go. Reading it hurt too much. |
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English grammar has very few hard-and-fast rules, but one is absolutely |
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sacrosanct: every verb agrees in number with its subject. If I'd been guilty |
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of this at school I'd have earned myself a stiff rebuke: |
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> An indicator are linker errors ... |
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> [Additionally, following Gentoo policies, the default-off use-flags |
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> nopie (only present in Hardened) and nossp are replaced starting with |
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> gcc-6 by default-on use-flags pie and ssp.] |
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No; they are replaced, by the developers, with those flags. |
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> Be advised that switching from an older version to GCC 6 will ... |
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Those first three words are redundant; they add nothing. |
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> ... relocation R_X86_64_32 against `.rodata.str1.1' can not be used |
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> when... |
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"Can not" should be "cannot" (different meaning). |
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I did say this is all off-topic. Apologies to anyone who feels aggrieved. I |
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could have suggested several other improvements as well, so I could say I've |
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let you off lightly. ;-) |
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(By way of explanation, 35 years ago I was made the documentation manager of |
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a 200-man-year software project. Ever since then I've been unable to read |
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anything at all without the eye of an editor - it's ruined my enjoyment of |
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everything I read. There's no hope any longer.) |
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Regards |
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Peter |
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