Re: C++ error printer cleanup, phase 1

[Phil Edwards <pedwards at disaster dot jaj dot com>]

On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 06:43:44PM -0700, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> If variadic macros were a feature of K+R C, or if it were possible to
> write an inline variadic wrapper function that handed off to a
> different variadic function (instead of a function that takes a
> va_list argument), that would be a different story.  Then one set of
> routines could be defined in terms of the other.

Yet another good argument for dropping K&R C as a bootstrapping compiler,
and going with the, "If you only have a K&R C compiler, first bootstrap
GCC 3.0, and then use that to bootstrap GCC 3.blah" approach.

Slowly pushing for GCC to move into the 21st century,  :-)
Phil

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