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Re: Patch: GC mach_dep file extensions
- From: Jeff Sturm <jsturm at one-point dot com>
- To: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Bryce McKinlay <bryce at waitaki dot otago dot ac dot nz>, java-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, "Boehm, Hans" <hans_boehm at hp dot com>, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 22:50:39 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: Patch: GC mach_dep file extensions
On 13 Feb 2002, Tom Tromey wrote:
> Bryce> Hans pointed out that ".S", not ".s" is the correct extension
> Bryce> for some asm files because it means "put this through the
> Bryce> preprocessor first". I've checked in this patch.
>
> I think it is a little better to arrange to run these with `-x
> assembler-with-cpp'.
It needs to work with Sun's cc as well. (I suspect gcc uses the inline
version and doesn't need this source at all.)
> My reason is that on case-insensitive file
> systems, `.S' and `.s' will appear the same.
I think anyone with a case-insensitive file system doesn't need to build
sparc_mach_dep.o. Either they are not targetting sparc or they are using
gcc as a cross compiler.
Jeff