On Sun, 2010-02-21 at 20:44 +0000, Dave Korn wrote: > On 21/02/2010 20:03, Martin Guy wrote: > > > The point about defaults is that the GCC default tends to filter down > > into the default for distributions; > > I'd find it surprising if that was really the way it happens; don't > distributions make deliberate and conscious decisions about binary standards > and things like that? They certainly ought to be doing so, IMO, rather than > just going with whatever-the-compiler-does-when-you-don't-tell-it-what-to-do.
Distributions do tweak to meet their goals: for example nearly all distributions ship with Ada enabled whereas GCC configure defaults with Ada disabled even when an Ada compiler is available to bootstrap with. Debian on mips (currently) defaults to o32 whereas GCC configure defaults to n32. I assume there are many other examples. Laurent
