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Re: bcopy -> memcpy/memmove transition proposal
- To: John Carr <jfc at mit dot edu>
- Subject: Re: bcopy -> memcpy/memmove transition proposal
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Sun, 20 Sep 1998 11:54:49 -0600
- cc: egcs at cygnus dot com
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <199809201519.LAA16184@contents-vnder-pressvre.mit.edu>you write:
>
> > Some popular systems do not provide ANSI compilers by default with
> > their systems. HPUX for example. Solaris may also be in the same
> > boat.
>
> I know that a few systems don't have ANSI C compilers. I even knew you
> were going to mention HPUX. I don't think that is a good enough reason to
> keep gcc 10 years in the past.
>
> HP is an exception. Other vendors ship a modern compiler or none at all.
> Solaris 2.x does not have ANY bundled C compiler but gcc is still viable on
> that system. Users without the Sun compiler can get gcc in binary form.
Sorry. These kinds of changes are not acceptable.
We must continue to support building on systems that do not come with
an ANSI compiler by default. Sorry.
If you want to investigate schemes which allow us to use ANSI function
definitions, but also seamlessly disables such definitions when not
using an ANSI compiler that would be acceptable.
jeff