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Re: Suggest: remove enquire.c and related rules from the tree.
- From: Zack Weinberg <zack at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Nathanael Nerode <neroden at doctormoo dot dyndns dot org>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 00:31:10 -0700
- Subject: Re: Suggest: remove enquire.c and related rules from the tree.
- References: <20020615041638.GA27093@doctormoo.dyndns.org>
On Sat, Jun 15, 2002 at 12:16:38AM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
> Currently enquire.c & its rules exist only for the benefit of people
> writing new float-*.h files. (This was not always the case.) It's a
> really, really, nasty piece of code, and anyway we don't have the newest
> version. :-) I suggest deleting it and its Makefile rules, and inserting
> a note in some appropriate documentation ("How to write a new back end"?)
> stating that 'enquire' might be a useful tool, and pointing to a website
> with it.
There seems to have been some divergence between our version and the
original author's. I would suggest that we do not throw away our
version, but move it over to the contrib directory. If someone feels
like merging with the updated version available from the original
author, they could do that too.
http://www.cwi.nl/~steven/enquire.html appears to be the place to get
a newer version, but he's off doing XML stuff now and hasn't updated
it since 1999.
zw