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Comment Re:Skipped version 5.0? (Score 1) 78

by kthreadd (#49534201) Attached to: GCC 5.1 Released

Not to mention the Windows-like version numbering scheme!

...gnu11 instead of the older gnu89

Obviously!

Blame ISO. The gnu compiler modes named in the same scheme as the corresponding versions of the C programming language, C89, C99, C11.

Submission + - GCC 5.1 Released (gnu.org)

Submitted by kthreadd
kthreadd writes: Version 5.1 of GCC, the primary free software compiler for GNU and other operating systems, has been released. Version 5 includes many changes from the 4.x series. Starting with this release the default compiler mode for C is gnu11 instead of the older gnu89. New features include new compiler warnings, support for Cilk Plus. There is a new attribute no_reorder which prevents reordering of selected symbols against other such symbols or inline assembler, enabling link-time optimization of the Linux kernel without having to use -fno-toplevel-reorder. Two new preprocessor directives have also been added, __has_include and __has_include_next, to test the availability of headers. Also, there's a new C++ ABI due to changes to libstdc++. The old ABI is however still supported and can be enabled using a macro. Other changes include full support for C++14. Also the Fortran frontend has received some improvements and users will now be able to have colorized diagnostics, and the Go frontend has been updated to the Go 1.4.2 release.

Comment Re:Poor Design... (Score 1) 73

by kthreadd (#49525791) Attached to: Networking Library Bug Breaks HTTPS In ~1,500 iOS Apps
OS X actually has perfectly fine support for shared libraries. They are supposed to be installed under /Library/Frameworks, and there are some applications that do that. There's no reason why they couldn't do that on iOS as well, just let developers share frameworks on the App Store and build a mechanism into the App Store where an app can require other apps or frameworks.

Comment Re:Poor Design... (Score 1) 73

by kthreadd (#49525691) Attached to: Networking Library Bug Breaks HTTPS In ~1,500 iOS Apps

Non system libraries are statically linked .a files in IOS. Apple insists on this, although I'm not entirely sure why. I guess its to avoid DLL hell.

Managing shared libraries across applications works fine in a GNU distribution where the distribution takes responsibility for all applications. With Apple's approach there's no good way to manage this, different applications might use their own specialized version of the library. At most you might have an opt-in system where developers can register the libraries they are using and the version they require, and have the system download and manage them for them.

Comment Re:And this is why corporations don't trust the GP (Score 1) 225

by kthreadd (#49424897) Attached to: How Ubiquiti Networks Is Creatively Violating the GPL

If "you" are a one-man shop, that's fine.

If "you" are the legal department for a company with 10,000 developers, the GPL is scary. You can either blanket-ban GPL code, and make your life easy, or create a system for separately evaluating the use of each and every piece of GPL code you allow in, plus some auditing process to catch cheaters (who check in GPL code as their own work, which happens).

Cloud services companies usually go with the latter: because you don't have to share your code if you don't distribute it, the payoff is good to allow use of GPL code, and police the corner cases where you do distribute code. Blanket bans on GPL code are still common at old-school software companies.

Most non-free licenses are quite scary too, but they often get a pass since they are not that open to begin with.

Comment Re:Anything unique? (Score 2) 223

by kthreadd (#49410485) Attached to: Mono 4 Released, First Version To Adopt Microsoft Code
Do they still "look just like" or are they "the same thing?" It used to be very easy to distinguish Qt applications on OS X when I used to use it a couple of years ago. The widgets looked very similar but you could instantly recognize that they were not quite right. It would be nice to know if the situation has improved.

Comment Re:Anything unique? (Score 3, Interesting) 223

by kthreadd (#49409371) Attached to: Mono 4 Released, First Version To Adopt Microsoft Code
For RAD I've had some good experiences in the pas with RealBasic (renamed to Xojo some time ago). At the time the GNU/Linux support was quite ok but they haven't really kept up. 64 bit is still missing for example so running anything you build with it will require a couple of 32 bit system libraries to be installed.

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