PATCH: FreeBSD system header didn't like the move to __GNUC__ == 3

Loren James Rittle rittle@latour.rsch.comm.mot.com
Mon Feb 19 22:10:00 GMT 2001


To whomever had the great idea of upping __GNUC__ last week instead of
waiting until the day before the 3.0 release, I salute you.  Other
developers that support an OS where gcc is the default system compiler
may want to assign someone to carefully check their system headers and
assumptions on __GNUC__ usage.  We only found this breakage on FreeBSD
since it impeded bootstrapping (by design?).

This patch was constructed and tested per the instructions in
fixinc/README in an already bootstrapped tree on
i386-unknown-freebsd4.2 (that had the system header in question
"fixed" by hand for bootstrapping purposes and then reverted to test
this new fix).  I studied the complete change history of
/usr/include/sys/cdefs.h on *-*-freebsd* to ensure this fix doesn't
make matters worse on any older version of that file and plays nice
with David's preferred OS-level fix.

Bruce, if you approve it and it is no bother to you, then please apply
to both 3.0 branch and the mainline.

Regards,
Loren

2001-02-19  Loren J. Rittle  <ljrittle@acm.org>

	* fixinc/inclhack.def (freebsd_gcc3_breakage): New fix.

Index: fixinc/inclhack.def
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/gcc/gcc/gcc/fixinc/inclhack.def,v
retrieving revision 1.101
diff -c -r1.101 inclhack.def
*** inclhack.def	2001/02/06 22:17:08	1.101
--- inclhack.def	2001/02/20 05:00:14
***************
*** 1031,1036 ****
--- 1031,1051 ----
  
  
  /*
+  *  Between 8/24/1998 and 2/17/2001, FreeBSD system headers presume
+  *  neither the existence of GCC 3 nor its exact feature set yet break
+  *  (by design?) when __GNUC__ is set beyond 2.
+  */
+ fix = {
+     hackname  = freebsd_gcc3_breakage;
+     mach      = *-*-freebsd*;
+     files     = sys/cdefs.h;
+     bypass    = '__GNUC__ [>=]= 3';
+     sed = 's@^#if __GNUC__ == 2 && __GNUC_MINOR__ >= 7$@& || __GNUC__ == 3@';
+     test_text = '#if __GNUC__ == 2 && __GNUC_MINOR__ >= 7';
+ };
+ 
+ 
+ /*
   *  Fix HP & Sony's use of "../machine/xxx.h"
   *  to refer to:  <machine/xxx.h>
   */



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