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Re: cpp doesn't define symbol i386
- To: Jim Wilson <wilson at cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: cpp doesn't define symbol i386
- From: Ronald dot Wahl at informatik dot tu-chemnitz dot de
- Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 00:24:22 +0200 (CEST)
- cc: law at cygnus dot com, egcs at cygnus dot com
On Mon, 13 Oct 1997, Jim Wilson wrote:
> As far as I can tell i386 should still be defined. Can you investigate
> why it's not being defined?
>
> i386 is defined only if you use `gcc -E'. This person is complaining that
> it is not defined if you use `cpp'. I think the answer here is to tell people
> that they can't rely on using `cpp' for preprocessing stuff that isn't C code,
> but if they really want to use it, then they should use `gcc -E' (or maybe
> even `gcc -E -traditional') instead of just `cpp'.
Hmm, now I replaced /lib/cpp by a script which calls "gcc -E $*". After a
bit of thinking I must say that this is a cleaner solution than linking to
the real cpp. Now I do not need to update this link anymore after
upgrading gcc.
ron
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