No, that's sarcasm-- and much appreciated when used to attack the Beast of
Redmond ;)
"Apple Max OS" isn't sarcasm. It's ignorance.
On Wed, 3 Nov 2004, Fons Rademakers wrote:
> Date: 03 Nov 2004 19:00:22 +0100
> From: Fons Rademakers <email@hidden>
> To: JLB <email@hidden>
> Cc: Federico Carminati <email@hidden>,
> Apple Gurus <email@hidden>,
> Macosx Support <email@hidden>,
> project-lcg-peb-apps <email@hidden>,
> Rene Brun <email@hidden>, Raul Silvera <email@hidden>
> Subject: Re: Problem with shared libraries on Mac OX
>
> So all the time I was wrong when I referred to "M$ Windoze".
>
>
> -- Fons
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, 2004-11-03 at 16:23, JLB wrote:
> > Why can NOBODY spell "Mac OS X" correctly? This guy has an excuse; he's
> > not American, British, Australian, a New Zealander or a South African, so
> > English probably isn't his first language. Nevertheless, I have seen (and
> > usually from native English speakers!) such abominations as:
> >
> > * "Apple Max OS"
> > * "Max Unix OS"
> > * "Max OS"
> > * "Macintosh OS X" (No, it's "Mac OS"; has Apple _EVER_ referred to
> > "Macintosh OS X" in their ads or legalese? Even ONCE!?)
> > * "MAC OS" (ditto "MAC", which most people use in place of "Mac"-- e.g.
> > "MAC and PC"; no, "Mac" is NOT an acronym and should NOT be capitalized!)
> >
> > What in the WORLD is wrong? Nobody seems to have problems spelling
> > "Microsoft Windows" (though most people think "Microsoft", "Windows" and
> > "PC" are all synonyms; e.g. "This game is only available for the PC"
> > (read: for PCs which happen to run Windows) or "We run Microsoft here."
> > (read: "we run Windows here")). Why does everyone (including
> > Mac users!) continually butcher the name "Mac OS X"?! It's only 8
> > characters, including spaces; how hard could it possibly be!?
> >
> > Say it with me.
> >
> > 1) "Mac" (as in "Macintosh"; not "MAC", which is a networking term)
> > 2) "OS" (short for "Operating System")
> > 3) "X".
> >
> > There, that wasn't so hard now, was it!?
> >
> > Maybe 50% of the time (or more), I see "Mac OS X" misrendered. I only see
> > Windows's name similarly mangled a tiny percentage of the time, with
> > lunacies such as:
> >
> > * Microsoft OS
> > * Win OS
> > * Windows OS
> > * XP OS
> > * Microsoft XP
> >
> > But it seems like someone will mangle the name of our beloved Mac OS X as
> > often as not.
> >
> > It's VERY telling about how little the masses know about something when
> > they consistently misspell its very NAME...
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 3 Nov 2004, Federico Carminati wrote:
> >
> > > Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 15:27:47 +0100 (CET)
> > > From: Federico Carminati <email@hidden>
> > > To: Apple Gurus <email@hidden>,
> > > Macosx Support <email@hidden>,
> > > project-lcg-peb-apps <email@hidden>,
> > > Alphonse Rademakers <email@hidden>,
> > > Rene Brun <email@hidden>, Raul Silvera <email@hidden>
> > > Subject: Problem with shared libraries on Mac OX
> > >
> > > Dear All,
> > > Please find a small tar file which evidentiates a problem with the g++
> > > compiler or the linker. Here is the story. I make a dylib that contains a
> > > global entity which is a class. This class contains a static member, which
> > > is again a class. The parent class of this is a pure virtual class. One of
> > > the member functions of this class is called in the constructor of the
> > > class associated with the global variable. This function exists in the
> > > base class and calls a function that is pure abstract in the base class
> > > but implemented in the derived class. When the dylib is loaded, the global
> > > variable is initialised, the class constructor is called, the function in
> > > the base class is called correctly. However when this function calls the
> > > other function, which is pure abstract in the base class and implemented
> > > in the derived class, the program dies.
> > > On SunOS, Alpha OSF1, Linux (both IA32 and AI64, g++ and intel
> > > compilers) and windows/cygwin this short program works correctly. On
> > > MacOSX 10.3 with g++ and ibm xlC compilers the program dies with
> > >
> > > [/Users/fca/sstest] gdb ./sstest
> > > GNU gdb 5.3-20030128 (Apple version gdb-330.1) (Fri Jul 16 21:42:28 GMT 2004)
> > > Copyright 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> > > [...]
> > > Reading symbols for shared libraries ... done
> > > (gdb) run
> > > Starting program: /Users/fca/sstest/sstest
> > > Reading symbols for shared libraries +. done
> > > Static::ctor
> > > Virtual::Print
> > >
> > > Program received signal EXC_BAD_ACCESS, Could not access memory.
> > > 0x0001ff00 in Virtual::Print() (this=0x27420) at static.cxx:21
> > > 21 PrintAdd();
> > > (gdb)
> > >
> > > All the elements of the picture are necessary, including the static data
> > > member. I would be glad if someone could help me with this. Best regards,
> > >
> > >
> > > Federico Carminati
> > >
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