Re: Unreviewed 2.95.4 patches since April 1st

[Bernd Schmidt <bernds at redhat dot com>]

On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, David Korn wrote:
>
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2001-04/msg00015.html
>
>   Uses fixincs to solve a vxworks header problem which leads to va_list
> being undefined.
>
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2001-04/msg00022.html
>
>   Adds a new target-specific option to the rs6000 backend, which maintains
> backward compatilbility with the 2.7.2 implementation of SysV4/EABI.  This
> is vital for compatibility with the VxWorks OS libs, which were compiled
> under that version.

Didn't David & Geoff decide against including patches like this?  If we
don't support it in 3.0 and the mainline, it shouldn't go into 2.95 either.

> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2001-03/msg02033.html
>
>   Fixes the longstanding bug that causes cross compilers to output files
> with .exe extensions if that is appropriate for the host, rather than the
> target.  This is a backport of DJ Delorie's patch which he posted in
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2001-04/msg00930.html
> and which was approved by rth in
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2001-04/msg00957.html

I'll look into this.  It'll take some time; I'm taking a vacation.


Bernd