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Re: [PATCH] Add target hook in C front end

From: Eric Christopher <echristo at redhat dot com>
To: Zack Weinberg <zack at codesourcery dot com>
Cc: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk>, Aldy Hernandez <aldyh at redhat dot com>, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, rth at redhat dot com, neil at daikokuya dot demon dot co dot uk
Date: 17 Dec 2001 16:32:49 -0800
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add target hook in C front end
References: <1008624749.30306.29.camel@ghostwheel.cygnus.com><Pine.LNX.4.33.0112172254110.22379-100000@kern.srcf.societies.cam.ac.uk> <20011218003031.GA30997@codesourcery.com>


> 
> Here's an alternate idea.  What if we add an option-processing hook to
> libcpp?  It would be as simple as "all -m switches are handed to this
> callback routine."  The MIPS back end could then define this hook to
> calculate the appropriate value for __SIZE_TYPE__ and pass it to
> cpp_define.  If properly written it would work correctly both with the
> standalone and integrated preprocessors.
> 

Sold! To the man in the back with the new suggestion :)

Seriously, if you and Joseph both go for this lemme know what I'd have
to do.

-eric

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