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Phil Edwards <phil@codesourcery.com> writes: > On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 11:20:42AM -0700, Zack Weinberg wrote: >> Jeffrey A Law <law@redhat.com> writes: >> >> >> I think this file should be under the libgcc exception. >> > Why? >> > >> > typeclass.h isn't used inside libgcc at all, nor is it installed >> > for use by users. It's usage appears to be strictly within GCC >> > itself -- which would indicate to me it ought to be straight GPL. >> >> It defines the return values of __builtin_classify_type. Assuming >> that's an extension we still need (it's not used anywhere in the >> current source tree, and the documentation mentions it only in the >> junk description of how we used to implement stdarg.h) it might be a >> useful header to install, and therefore ought to be under the libgcc >> exception, in case we decide to do that in the future. > > (Haven't been reading this thread, spologies if I'm out of date.) > > I tried getting rid of this header when I was doing compile-time type > reflection/introspection on Gaby's now-dead branch. It turned out that > glibc used it for some twisted purpose, even though gcc doesn't. I just did a grep through the current glibc sources and see no references to typeclass.h at all. Especially tgmath.h does not include it. It might be that tgmath.h could be written in a better way with typeclass... Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj SUSE Linux AG, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
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