Re: egcs patches for BSD/OS 4.0

[Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>]

  In message <19981001154300V.shigeya@foretune.co.jp>you write:
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  > Following, diffs and several mods against snapshot 98/9/21, to
  > (partially) support BSD/OS 4.0 (ELF)
  > 
  > I still have problem with exception handling (which cause 70+
  > unexpected errors) but other part, for at lest C and C++ is working,
  > on i486 configuration. (i386 is not working due to some bug, as
  > reported.)
  > 
  > 1. {gcc/config/i386/}bsdi-elf.h is newly created file.
  >    (temporarly MASK_NO_FANCY_MATH_387 disabled. due to it conflict
  >     to configure with i486)
  > 
  >    It still needs clean-up. But at least it is working.
  > 
  > 2. patch to configure.in, which uses above config on bsdi4.x.
  > 
  > 3. stddef.h need patch -- I provided patch for stddef.h to make it
  >    work on BSD/OS 3.x several months ago, but now, this change cause
  >    failure on BSD/OS 4.0, so I introduced version checking.
  > 
  > 4. patch to libio/gen-params. I'm using gcc 2.7.2.1 (comes with
  >    BSD/OS), and libio can't build without this patch on BSD/OS, since
  >    _G_u?llong is not decleared for gcc 2.7.x.
  > 
  > 5. patches in libio/isscan.cc, etc. to use _IO_va_list not va_list
  >    I don't know why this happend. I compile only C and C++ with
  >    LANGUAGES="c c++". does this cause libio NOT to be built with the
  >    egcs gcc just built?
  > 
  > Hope these be incorported in tree..
Note, these changes are significant enough that we'll need a copyright
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http://www.cygnus.com/egcs/contribute.html

For further information.

jeff