PATCH: FreeBSD system header didn't like the move to __GNUC__== 3
Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk
Tue Feb 20 00:24:00 GMT 2001
On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Loren James Rittle wrote:
> 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?).
I pointed out the potential existence of problems in third party software
and its use of __GNUC_MINOR__ last April
<URL: http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2000-04/msg00561.html >. Did no-one from
FreeBSD follow my suggestion to grep their source tree until now :-)?
Your replacement test ought to check for __GNUC__ > 2 or __GNUC__ >= 3 to
avoid breaking with GCC 4.
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Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk
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