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Re: %[


On Sun, Jul 19, 1998 at 11:03:49PM -0600, Jeffrey A Law wrote:
> 
>   In message <r2k95awrf7.fsf@happy.cygnus.com>you write:
>   > I just found that the the latest egcs is buggy on Intel (no details in
>   > the moment) but since I need a compiler a stepped back to the latest
>   > 2.91.x version I've lying around.  But this does not work anymore
>   > since the %[ operator is now declared an error.  This is certainly not
>   > desirable.
>   > 
>   > I suggest to remove the test for the next releases/years.
> Where and how are you using %[]
> 
> We deliberately remove %[].

Did we remove it from every gcc version? Don't think so ;)

>  Nothing should be using it.

Almost all version do - what he meant was that he can't call older releases,
which is contro-productive (I fell into the same trap). While "officially",
using "-V" to call older versions of gcc is not supported, it is highly
useful for testing bugs or going back to a non-broken version of gcc.

(otherwise, why don't we just remove -V?)


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