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Re: __i386__ and cpp (Correction)
- To: drepper at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: __i386__ and cpp (Correction)
- From: hjl at lucon dot org (H.J. Lu)
- Date: Sat, 14 Feb 1998 14:09:42 -0800 (PST)
- Cc: egcs at cygnus dot com
>
> hjl@lucon.org (H.J. Lu) writes:
>
> > > __i386__ has been dropped from cpp in 1996. It
> > > causes a problem for imake since it calls cpp
> > > directly. It would be nice for egcs 1.0.2 to
> > > define __i386__ on all x86 platforms.
> > >
> >
> > Ooops. It should be i386 is checked by imake.
>
> So why do you mention imake if it checks i386 and you want to get
> __i386__ back? I don't understand. __i386__ cannot be a typo since
> i386 is defined in the specs.
>
> In fact, i386 is a problem since it violates the namespace. You
> cannot get a ISO C compliant environment with gcc/egcs as it is.
>
We can try to make XFree86 to check __i386__. But we should give
something to imake to check within cpp.
--
H.J. Lu (hjl@gnu.org)