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Re: GCC headers and DJGPP port
- To: mrs at windriver dot com
- Subject: Re: GCC headers and DJGPP port
- From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at delorie dot com>
- Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 07:05:59 -0400 (EDT)
- CC: zack at wolery dot cumb dot org, djgpp-workers at delorie dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, martin at loewis dot home dot cs dot tu-berlin dot de
- References: <200007230023.RAA01633@kankakee.wrs.com>
- Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at is dot elta dot co dot il>
> From: Mike Stump <mrs@windriver.com>
> Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 17:23:25 -0700 (PDT)
>
> > A similar argument can be made for assert.h, stddef.h, and possibly
> > float.h, but these headers do not cause nearly as much trouble as
> > limits.h. Limits.h must die.
>
> If we do this, we should do them all enmass, and then be willing to
> seek out and test on lots of platforms to make sure we don't introduce
> new bugs.
Such a change doesn't have to affect all platforms, and doesn't need
to happen in one go. It could be conditioned on some sommand-line
option to `configure', or be the default on only some platforms, at
least initially.