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Re: [971031]: Fix for broken hypot funct. on m88k-motorola-sysv3
- To: manfred at s-direktnet dot de
- Subject: Re: [971031]: Fix for broken hypot funct. on m88k-motorola-sysv3
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 11:34:04 -0700
- Cc: egcs at cygnus dot com
- Reply-To: egcs at cygnus dot com
In message <9712120945.AA20731@lts.sel.alcatel.de>you write:
> Well, I added this for two reasons:
>
> 1. I didn't want to make changes which would probably affect other systems
OK.
> 2. Some checks should be rewritten to use my new ${target...} stuff,
> because building a cross compiler will otherwise fail to fix some header files;
> most tests are like `if [ -f /vmunix ]...' which of course can be
> misleading (or even wrong!) in a cross environment.
We should avoid this kind of check if at all possible since they are obviously
incorrect for cross compilers.
> BTW: This patch has been obsoleted by the second part of
> <http://www.cygnus.com/ml/egcs-bugs/1997-Dec/0137.html>
All the more reason to send one patch per mail message...
jeff