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Re: Dollars in identifiers, for the last time
- From: Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse dot de>
- To: Neil Booth <neil at daikokuya dot co dot uk>
- Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 09:02:50 +0200
- Subject: Re: Dollars in identifiers, for the last time
- References: <20030517200212.GA31746@daikokuya.co.uk>
Neil Booth <neil@daikokuya.co.uk> writes:
> Dollars in identifier handling has been screwed for all of the 3.x
> series I believe. For 3.3 and 3.4, -f[no-]dollars-in-identifiers is
> being completely ignored.
>
> This patch sorts it out for good. We accept dollars iff
> DOLLARS_IN_IDENTIFIERS, but this default can be overridden on
> the command line. We warn if pedantic and not C99, since C99 permits
> implementation-defined chars in identifiers, and I've documented
> our choice. There is no good reason to reject '$' even for -std=c89
> based on our accepted meaning of -std=, so we don't, as documented.
>
> I'm testing on x86-netbsd and will apply it if successful.
This patch seems to be broken, now libffi does not build anymore. For
details see my email on the gcc list with subject "libffi broken with
your latest change".
Did you build java with this patch?
Andreas
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