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Re: Get rid of underscore.c
- From: Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp at bitrange dot com>
- To: Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs dot mu dot oz dot au>
- Cc: Zack Weinberg <zack at codesourcery dot com>, David Edelsohn <dje at watson dot ibm dot com>, Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>, <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2002 08:16:16 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: Get rid of underscore.c
On Sun, 22 Sep 2002, Fergus Henderson wrote:
> On 21-Sep-2002, Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp@bitrange.com> wrote:
> > Why not just add cxxfilt.c somewhere in gcc too? Why can't it
> > live in both binutils and gcc? Does the duplicate source really
> > hurt that bad? (It could just be that stupid main function.)
>
> Duplicated *binaries* would be a problem for package systems (Debian, RPM,
> etc.), wouldn't they?
And they've managed that precise problem for quite some time
now, haven't they? To not install c++filt from both gcc and
binutils would actually be a change that they'd now have to cope
with.
brgds, H-P