Re: [PATCH] do not install float.h, stddef.h and stdarg.h for mingw-w64

[Ozkan Sezer <sezeroz at gmail dot com>]

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 8:20 PM, Paolo Carlini <pcarlini@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> Hi:
>>
>> The mingw-w64 header set already provides float.h, stdarg.h and
>> stddef.h with their own additions. The attached patch makes gcc
>> to not install those headers for *-w64-mingw*. Please consider
>> for applying to 4.5. (I don't have write permissions. The patch
>> file has the ChangeLog.)
>
> Hummm. Now I have a question for the GWPs or in any case any maintainer
> knowing well the full range if targets which we are supporting: is the above
> request normal? Naively, I was thinking  that GCC installs *everywhere*

See, config/t-openbsd, config/i386/t-netware and
config/mips/t-sdemtk as the three examples where
such request seems to have been found normal in
the past.

> float.h, as happens on Linux, for example. *If* that were true tweaking it a
> bit, eg, for decimal floating point in C++ would be so easy...
>
> Thanks,
> Paolo
>

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Ozkan