Re: gcc or cc?

[Martin Mitchell <martin@debian.org>]

Brederlow <goswin.brederlow@student.uni-tuebingen.de> writes:

> When considering poratibility and code cleaness, the only answere one
> can give to this question is "CC=cc".
> 
> No sourcecode should rely on gcc or any of its extensions. And if it
> doesn`t use any gcc specific stuff, it should not rely on gcc.

I disagree. However would we compile a kernel without gcc and its extensions?
IMO the default compiler for Debian should be the one Linus uses for the
kernel. This is currently gcc.

	Martin.