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Re: GCC headers and DJGPP port
- To: law at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: GCC headers and DJGPP port
- From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at delorie dot com>
- Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 15:20:26 -0400 (EDT)
- CC: mrs at windriver dot com, 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
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- Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at is dot elta dot co dot il>
> Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 09:39:13 -0600
> From: Jeffrey A Law <law@cygnus.com>
>
> In message <200007231105.HAA13296@indy.delorie.com>you write:
> > > 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.
> No, that's a hack, plain and simple. And it fails to address the issues I
> pointed out in my previous messages.
I believe I addressed the issues you raised in other messages. The
above referred to a suggestion originally made by Mike (to remove
stddef.h and possibly other headers based on Autoconf test).