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Re: Convert 3.2 sources to ISO C90
- From: law at redhat dot com
- To: "David S. Miller" <davem at redhat dot com>
- Cc: robertlipe at usa dot net, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2002 22:54:29 -0600
- Subject: Re: Convert 3.2 sources to ISO C90
- Reply-to: law at redhat dot com
In message <20020605.192105.111716507.davem@redhat.com>, "David S. Miller"
writes:
>
> So what is sunfreeware.com doing right for Solaris folks that
> the people hosting the HP stuff aren't getting right?
A large part of it is fixincludes. On Solaris we're able to avoid lots of
fixed includes via various schemes -- mostly because the Solaris header
files are pretty close to what GCC needs. HPUX is a radically different
story unfortunately.
> This is a problem independent of moving 3.2 away from the
> K&R requirement.
Certainly. If it wasn't for fixincludes it'd be a hell of a lot easier to
take a compiler built on version of the OS and use it on another.
jeff