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Re: autoconf for type sizes
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 11:56:56AM -0800, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 07:47:37PM +0000, Neil Booth wrote:
> > Zack Weinberg wrote:-
> >
> > > As for the 'way too much fuss' ... you have to understand gcc has a
> > > configuration scheme with a 14 year history (gcc 1.0 was in 1987) and
> > > tons of dust in the corners. The fuss is largely over our own
> > > iatrogenic problems, not the ones caused by autoconf.
> > ^^^^^^^^^^
> >
> > Wow! What does that mean? :-)
>
> Sorry. In this context, I meant "caused by ourselves." The word
> actually means "caused by the treatment" (of some other problem)
/So/ many of my bug reports just became a lot shorter. :-)
Phil
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