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Re: GCC Steering Committee decision on ISO C conversion
On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 06:59:59PM -0700, Stan Shebs wrote:
> > > We're not converting config/* yet.
> >
> > Why? I would really like to use string concatenation in freebsd.h files.
> > Why hold my OS back for HP braindeadness?
>
> For the same reason that ginclude/stddef.h is a nightmare of ifdefs,
> many of them required by BSD braindeadness. :-) We all make
> compromises for the sake of being able to work together.
ginclude/stddef.h is used everywhere. config/freebsd*.h *might* be used
by 0.0001% of the HP-UX users.
> None of these choices are set in stone either. The SC has already
> proposed to revisit the issue for 3.3, which isn't that many
> months away...
It is _years_ away from my perspective. GCC 3.1 just went into FreeBSD.
Depending on when 3.2 is released, how much bugs it fixes on AMD x86-64
and IA-64; it could be until FreeBSD 6.0 (probably 2 years away) until we
can upgrade to it.
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-- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)