Re: patch: kill N copies of fatal() in gen*.c

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

  In message <199908261914.PAA18767@caip.rutgers.edu>you write:
  >  > From: Zack Weinberg <zack@bitmover.com>
  >  > 
  >  > It would be Really Nice if someone would fix it so libiberty could be
  >  > used in the generator programs - they have their own copies of xmalloc
  >  > et al, too.  I don't know enough about the build framework to do this.
  > 
  > 
  > 	I tried, about 8 months ago.
  > 
  > http://www.cygnus.com/ml/egcs-patches/1998-Dec/0277.html
  > 
  > I essentially did the HOST_PREFIX trick on the whole libiberty dir.
  > 
  > Jeff replied that he wanted to wait until after egcs-1.2 (now gcc-2.95).
  > 
  > http://egcs.cygnus.com/ml/gcc-patches/1999-02/msg00460.html
  > 
  > Since that's been done, perhaps we can revisit this again.
  > 
  > The patch probably needs updating, especially if I incorporate Jeff's
  > feedback.  Jeff is this something I should pursue now?
I was holding off because I thought we needed some of the other libiberty
stuff dealt with first (which I recently approved, you got the approval
messages, right?).

It's definitely in my queue.

jeff