Is fixinclude needed on modern systems?

[Ian Lance Taylor]

Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> writes:

> On Tuesday 27 February 2007, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> > "Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò" <flameeyes@gmail.com> writes:
> > > I've been working on building a few crosscompilers lately, and since
> > > 4.1.2 release I've now started getting errors with fixinclude target
> > > (probably unrelated), so I've started looking up the need for this, and
> > > I've started wondering if it is still needed on modern systems.
> >
> > Yes, fixincludes is still needed on modern systems.
> 
> any chance of an explanation ?  "yes" doesnt really satisfy the curious ;)

An easy recent example is that gcc's handling of "extern inline"
changed in -std=c99 mode, and fixincludes changes glibc's uses of
"extern inline" accordingly.

Ian