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Re: Convert 3.2 sources to ISO C90
- From: law at redhat dot com
- To: dewar at gnat dot com (Robert Dewar)
- Cc: shebs at apple dot com, espie at quatramaran dot ens dot fr, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2002 16:33:41 -0600
- Subject: Re: Convert 3.2 sources to ISO C90
- Reply-to: law at redhat dot com
In message <20020606222243.56F98F2D54@nile.gnat.com>, Robert Dewar writes:
> <<Is having prototypes so important that we're going to make it impossible t
> o
> bootstrap GCC on HPs using the native compiler?
> >>
>
> I would say yes. After all, what we are talking about here in practice is
> that people have to import a gcc binary to build from sources. What's the
> big deal?
The big deal is that binaries are typically nowhere near as portable on
HPs as they are on Linux, Solaris, etc and there is no cross toolchain
support for HPs due to a lack of a cross linker or cross assembler.
jeff