Re: [Patch] Fix ac_c99_complex configury

[Paolo Carlini <pcarlini at suse dot de>]

Mark Mitchell wrote:

> I looked; it doesn't make sense to me.  We certainly use link-tests
> for other aspects of cross configuration.  All I see is:
>
>   # Here's why GLIBCXX_CHECK_MATH_SUPPORT, and other autoconf macros
>   # that involve linking, can't be used:
>   #    "cannot open sim-crt0.o"
>   #    "cannot open crt0.o"
>
> I actually think that this means that someone's got a botched
> toolchain build, but, hey, I could certainly be wrong.

Ok ;) Let's wait for Benjamin to (further) clarify, thanks.

> I'm sure some our customers are still using <iostream.h>...  It's not
> a terribly hard thing to change, but it can mean updating all of your
> (thousands of) source files.  I don't have an opinion on whether V3
> should rip this out or not.

Same here, I don't have a strong opinion. Certainly would simplify
solving the problem at issue and certainly we deprecated it already for
*3.3*.

Thanks,
Paolo.