Your recent change to gcc/configure.in

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Nov 13, 2000, Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@arm.com> wrote:

> Also, in autoconf files you should use 'test', not '['; since I believe 
> that the latter is not as widely available on some obscure machines.

The actual reason is that `[' and `]' are the quote characters used by
autoconf, so using them as shell commands is inconvenient because you
have to remember to have them quoted.  I don't know of any portability
issues.

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