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Re: strtoul vs g77
- To: Craig Burley <burley at gnu dot ai dot mit dot edu>
- Subject: Re: strtoul vs g77
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 09:31:53 -0600
- cc: egcs at cygnus dot com
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <199709190627.CAA28904@churchy.gnu.ai.mit.edu>you write:
> I hope this all works. It'd be a *huge* relief if it did. As
> any of you might observe in my commentary in gcc/f/proj.c, we
> *did* attempt to do this a couple of years ago (or so -- has it
> been that long?!).
Yes, it was a comment dated sometime in 1995.
> The effect worked on SunOS systems IIRC, but
> it *broke* the configuration on some systems that *did* have a
> working ANSI C library, complete with bsearch() and strtoul(),
> and we couldn't figure out why.
Well, that's what we have autoconf for -- if it doesn't work on
some system that has bsearch and/or strtoul, then we'll go fix
autoconf. This is precisely the kind of problem autoconf should
be solving for us.
> So maybe enough time has passed and bugs in tools we were relying
> upon (autoconf, ld, shells, sed, who knows what ;-) have been
> fixed.
Or autoconf is just better at hiding many of the details of those
broken tools from us; which is just as good as far as I'm concerned.
jeff