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Re: [mainline] PATCH to diagnostic.[hc]
"Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@cam.ac.uk> writes:
| On Wed, 30 Apr 2003, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
|
| > | A C90 compiler (e.g. older GCC), not necessarily a C90 library (except to
| > | the extent to which libiberty emulates one - and though there have been
| > | discussions of putting a *printf reimplementation in libiberty, it hasn't
| > | happened yet).
| >
| > I'm not sure we do really want to make that pedantic distinction.
| > Was distinction the SC voted on?
| > I do not believe it would bring any value over the previous K+R
| > requirement.
|
| It's what I understood from the previous discussions - the actual
| announcement said nothing about the details [1]. It fits in with the
| principle that libiberty (on the host and build systems) and fixincludes
| (on the target) make old libraries largely invisible whereas old compilers
| have an impact on all the code, and systems with old compilers can be
| bootstrapped via an older GCC.
I'll make the change and leave the library issue for latter, although
I do think that we should also remove the library restrictions (by
putting appropriate bits in libiberty if necessary).
-- Gaby