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Re: [patch] to libiberty for 2.95.3: backport 4.3BSD fixes


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


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