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Re: [Patch/i386]: -mrtd vs system library declarations

"Zack Weinberg" <zack@codesourcery.com> writes:

[...]

| > 7.5/2
| >
| >     extern string-literal { declaration-seq }
| >     extern string-literal declaration
| 
| In principle I agree with you; however, adding support for this
| notation to the C front end would be tremendously more work than
| adding some machine-specific #pragmas.

I hear you, but I'm skeptical about the overall cost. 

|  I do not think it is fair to ask Danny to do that much work.

Well, I do not believe it really is more work.  It is not that this
would be to be invented from scratch.  We've been having that
framework in GCC/g++ for many years, implemented in both the
bison-based and the new parsers.

-- Gaby
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