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Re: ANSI string concatenation in i386/cygwin.h
- From: Jeff Sturm <jsturm at one-point dot com>
- To: mike stump <mrs at windriver dot com>
- Cc: zack at codesourcery dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, obrien at FreeBSD dot org
- Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 20:10:18 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: ANSI string concatenation in i386/cygwin.h
On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, mike stump wrote:
> > On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> > > It isn't supposed to be doing that.
>
> > I have to say this... the K&R rule is preposterous for code specific
> > to targets that never had a K&R compiler, e.g. Cygwin. Why waste
> > any energy on a non-problem?
>
> You seem to think that build == host == target, while that might be
> try some of the time, it isn't true all of the time.
No, I think build == host == target if you are bootstrapping, else you'd
better be building with gcc anyway.
Building a cross compiler with a K&R cc simply doesn't work except in very
limited cases.
Jeff