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Re: Your change to intl/localealias.c (read_alias_file)
- To: drepper at cygnus dot com (Ulrich Drepper)
- Subject: Re: Your change to intl/localealias.c (read_alias_file)
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 14:41:59 -0600
- cc: kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu (Richard Kenner), gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <m31z2ih56r.fsf@localhost.localdomain>you write:
> kenner@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu (Richard Kenner) writes:
>
> > Not all of the world is ISO C.
>
> It is for me. ISO C is 10 years old.
>
> > GCC is required to be compilable by all current vendor compilers.
> > Try "man memcpy" on Digital Unix on Alpha: it returns void there.
>
> Well, then it's a case for libiberty. There is no reason why other
> systems should suffer from the stupidity of DEC.
Uli -- code which is part of binutils & gcc must be compilable with
lame-o compilers, including DEC, HP, etc. If the code is giving the
DEC compiler problems, then we need to change it.
jeff