"Stanislav Syekirin" wrote:
> > The people on clang architectures need to know that the gcc systems
> > are
> > different, that different decisions have been made. Education is way
> > more important than consistancy.
>
> I'm all for being educated about differences between architectures. I
> think the current manual pages don't achieve it in this particular
> regard. They don't, as far as I see, mention anywhere that there even
> *are* gcc systems as opposed to clang systems. I've only learned about
> it from this mailing list and from blog entries by Frederic Cambus.
Well, now you know.
> > This manual page is not hurting you.
>
> It does cause confusion (e.g. I see no way to find out from the manual
> pages on which platforms the GNU assembler is part of the system and
> on which platforms it is not; removing the man pages for certain
> platforms might not be the solution, but the problem is real).
And you are no longer confused.
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