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Re: __i386__ and cpp (Correction)
- To: egcs at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: __i386__ and cpp (Correction)
- From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at cygnus dot com>
- Date: 13 Feb 1998 22:30:31 -0800
- Newsgroups: cygnus.egcs
- Organization: Cygnus Solutions
- References: <m0y3WbW-0004ecC.cygnus.egcs@ocean.lucon.org>
- Reply-To: drepper at cygnus dot com (Ulrich Drepper)
hjl@lucon.org (H.J. Lu) writes:
> > __i386__ has been dropped from cpp in 1996. It
> > causes a problem for imake since it calls cpp
> > directly. It would be nice for egcs 1.0.2 to
> > define __i386__ on all x86 platforms.
> >
>
> Ooops. It should be i386 is checked by imake.
So why do you mention imake if it checks i386 and you want to get
__i386__ back? I don't understand. __i386__ cannot be a typo since
i386 is defined in the specs.
In fact, i386 is a problem since it violates the namespace. You
cannot get a ISO C compliant environment with gcc/egcs as it is.
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