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Re: flag_traditional relocation appropriate?



  In message <199806160053.UAA21821@melange.gnu.org>you write:
  > Should the flag_traditional global be moved from being defined in
  > the C front end to be defined in toplev.c or some such place?  And
  > the declaration accordingly moved into toplev.h?
  > 
  > Currently it seems the C front end defines and declares this
  > almost exclusively *except* for the dwarf* modules, which are
  > not part of the C front end.
Hmmm, it really doesn't have a whole lot of meaning outside of
the C language.  What would "traditional" C++ or Fortran mean? :-)

It looks like the dwarf* modules use it to determine what C variant
to record in the dwarf debug record since apparently dwarf and dwarf2
distinguish between "old C" and c89.

jeff


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