Haiku OS Support Upstreamed Into GCC Compiler

[fong38]

Anyone who wants security should switch from Linux to Haiku.

CVS in 2023 for Haiku(BeOS): 0
CVS in 2023 for Linux..........: 223

Surprises me that everyone here mistook it as a serious statement when that more than likely was meant to be a joke

[coder]

Surprises me that everyone here mistook it as a serious statement when that more than likely was meant to be a joke

Surprises me that you thought Benjamin Franklin really said anything about "security by obscurity", but perhaps I'm being presumptuous.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin

[CochainComplex]

As Benjamin Franklin famously said: "Those who would seek security through obscurity deserve neither."

Terry A. Davis : *hold my holy beer*

[kallisti5]

I submitted a correction for this one. it is *NOT* true (though it definitely sounds true from the commit message).

tldr:

• I upstreamed binutils support for Haiku in 2021 from our fork.
• A maintainer at GCC took the autotools portion of the binutils commit in 2021, and the commit message saying "support was added", and merged them to GCC for autotools stuff

Sources:

• Commit in Question
  • https://gcc.gnu.org/git/?p=gcc.git;a=commitdiff;h=ead5103cc6f526bcc5a30c8c 7185e9dd5de73d55
• binutils commit they seemed to "use" from 2021
  • https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commitdiff;h=d85e70a35bffa755fd3e9f4ccc6 bf6c64953e85d
• An example of what's actually needed to upstream Haiku support to GCC from 2018:
  • https://gcc.gnu.org/legacy-ml/gcc-pa.../msg00874.html

[edwaleni]

Benjamin Franklin also said....

...house guests are like fish, they both begin to smell after three days.....