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Re: [patch] Fix i386-mingw32 build failure
On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 02:35:41PM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
>
> > I still think it's a bad solution, though; it's imposing special
> > semantics for process execution in libiberty, rather than the normal
> > ones that you would expect from the OS.
>
> Doing that is part of the purpose of libiberty. If the OS does
> something unusual, we try to make it act in a conforming way, so that
> the rest of the tools need not worry about the OS differences. Adding
> support for #! scripts is one of the ways we can make MinGW more
> conforming (Cygwin and DJGPP already support #!) to the norm.
I'm inclined to agree that this seems like a natural use of libiberty;
the purpose all along has been to isolate OS differences, fill in missing
functions, etc.
Mark, can you think of any specific negative consequences?