Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <3FE8AF7D.6ED7A33B@dessent.net> Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 13:11:25 -0800 From: Brian Dessent Organization: My own little world... MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Unable to compile cygwin References: <20031223045751.GB10202@redhat.com> <20031223142518.GB2966@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - host.linuxsv3.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - cygwin.com X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [0 0] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - dessent.net X-IsSubscribed: yes Christopher Faylor wrote: > But, then, why should your boss trust me to be giving you the right > information? I might be maliciously steering you towards corrupted code > which was specially intended to subvert your security... What he's not saying here is that secretly he has committed the Special Meanness (tm) code into the gcc core, so that even if you recompile your compiler[1] you still get meanness. [1] http://www.acm.org/classics/sep95/ Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/