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Re: Further i386/ CPP builtins


In message <xwu660xwois.fsf@tonopah.toronto.redhat.com>, Jim Wilson writes:
 > >WTF is moss?  Should it be including linux.h?
 > 
 > A DOS extender.
 >         http://www.cs.utah.edu/flux/moss/
 > 
 > This research paper is dated 1996, and the gcc moss port hasn't changed sinc
 > e
 > it was contributed in 1996.  It is listed as an inactive project by the Flux
 > research group at U Utah.
 >         http://www.cs.utah.edu/flux/oldproj.html
 > I think this is a candidate for deletion.
 > 
 > The original version of the moss port has:
 > /* I believe in reuse... */
 > #include "i386/linux.h"
 > 
 > So yes, the linux.h include was deliberate, but odds are it won't work
 > anymore because of lack of maintenance.
I suspect it's dead.  The key developer (Bryan Ford) isn't at the UofU
anymore.

jeff


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