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Re: [patch] to libiberty for 2.95.3: backport 4.3BSD fixes
- To: Michael Sokolov <msokolov at ivan dot Harhan dot ORG>
- Subject: Re: [patch] to libiberty for 2.95.3: backport 4.3BSD fixes
- From: Bernd Schmidt <bernds at redhat dot com>
- Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 12:26:34 +0000 (GMT)
- Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Michael Sokolov wrote:
> Last July I've made the following changes to libiberty (with some fixes by
> Jeff):
<snip>
> to fix it for 4.3BSD, which was badly broken.
>
> Bernd, would it be possible to include these fixes in 2.95.3 so that it doesn't
> break on 4.3BSD in libiberty? On the branch aclocal.m4 must be added as a new
> file, because it didn't exist yet back then, and ignore the sort.c and and
> cp-demangle.c patches, because those files weren't there either, but the rest
> applies to the branch correctly without changing a single line.
I'm sorry, but I'm not including these patches. My guess is that there are
only very few users of 4.3BSD, and supporting additional platforms is not a
goal for 2.95.3. The risk of breaking other targets is too high.
Bernd