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Re: c/3297: fixincludes (?) removes pthread types from types.h


On Jun 21, 2001, Bruce Korb <bkorb@veritas.com> wrote:

> it is peculiar to require different binaries
> to accomplish this.  e.g.:

>    export GCC_DATADIR=/mumble/os-version/gcc-version

> ought to work just fine.

Not in general.  Think, for example, of Solaris 7/sparc, that is 32/64
dual, and Solaris 2.6/sparc, that is 32-bit only.  The set of flags
accepted by these compilers is very different.  Using one of them to
fire up the other's cc1 is likely to result in errors.  This just
can't work in general.

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