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Re: remove some obsolete files
- To: Dan Nicolaescu <dann at godzilla dot ICS dot UCI dot EDU>
- Subject: Re: remove some obsolete files
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk>
- Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 01:27:20 +0000 (GMT)
- cc: <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>
On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, Dan Nicolaescu wrote:
> The 6 pself*.c files don't serve any useful purpose, they are neat
> tricks, but they don't have anything to do with the compiler, just add
> clutter. If anybody realy wants them, there are a ton of self printing
> programs on the web...
>
> dostage2 and dostage3 are obsoleted by the {re}stage[23] make
> targets (and they probably don't do the right thing anyway).
>
> What about future.options, is it worth keeping?
Perhaps GCC should have an equivalent of the etc directory in GNU Emacs
for such things as pself* and future.options?
--
Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk