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Re: flag_traditional relocation appropriate?
- To: Craig Burley <burley at gnu dot org>
- Subject: Re: flag_traditional relocation appropriate?
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 01:33:21 -0600
- cc: egcs at cygnus dot com
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
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