Re: C preprocessor, mips assembler and #ident (root cause of PRs 2620 and 5789)

[Eric Christopher <echristo at redhat dot com>]

> Two possible fixes are:
> 
>  - adding an option to cpp0 to drop #ident directives and
>    using this for .S files on irix
> 
>  - working around the problem when compiling .S files by:
>     - passing the -Wp,-P to cpp so that line numbers are dropped -
>     removing -nocpp from the assembler flags so that the irix
>       cpp is run on the .s file.
>    The irix cpp will strip out #ident directives, but chokes on gcc cpp
>    #line directives
> 

The second set of options is the easiest. Adding the additional on the
command line to the Irix assembler is quite easy.

-eric

> Are either of these viable for 3.1

I guess this is up to Mark.

-eric

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