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Re: Patch to add BeOS/x86 support
- To: Jason Merrill <jason at cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: Patch to add BeOS/x86 support
- From: Mumit Khan <khan at NanoTech dot Wisc dot EDU>
- Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 16:53:59 -0600
- cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
Jason Merrill <jason@cygnus.com> writes:
> The BeOS is an odd puppy, gratuitously incompatible with Unix
> conventions in a number of ways. Several of these ways are new to
> gcc, so they have been parameterized.
You're lucky, I remember it being much worse before the move to elf.
> The folks at Be wanted 'gcc foo.c' to produce 'foo' rather than
> 'a.out'; this patch implements that change for the BeOS port. How do
> people feel about this inconsistency?
I'd like to see the same on x86-win32 as well. It provides some level of
consistency with other native tools on these platforms.
Regards,
Mumit