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Re: Patch: GC mach_dep file extensions
- From: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- To: Jeff Sturm <jsturm at one-point dot com>
- Cc: Bryce McKinlay <bryce at waitaki dot otago dot ac dot nz>, java-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, "Boehm, Hans" <hans_boehm at hp dot com>, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: 14 Feb 2002 09:04:43 -0700
- Subject: Re: Patch: GC mach_dep file extensions
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10202132240500.12988-100000@mars.deadcafe.org>
- Reply-to: tromey at redhat dot com
>>>>> "Jeff" == Jeff Sturm <jsturm@one-point.com> writes:
Jeff> It needs to work with Sun's cc as well.
Ok. In our tree it doesn't, since boehm-gc is always built as a
target library and thus can assume gcc. However, I can understand
that we might not want a divergence here.
>> My reason is that on case-insensitive file
>> systems, `.S' and `.s' will appear the same.
Jeff> I think anyone with a case-insensitive file system doesn't need
Jeff> to build sparc_mach_dep.o. Either they are not targetting sparc
Jeff> or they are using gcc as a cross compiler.
Yes, they could be building a cygwin-x-sparc cross.
Tom