PATCH: Support for Pascal strings -- Take 2

Mark Mitchell mark@codesourcery.com
Sun Jul 1 11:17:00 GMT 2001


--On Friday, June 29, 2001 12:10:22 PM -0700 Ziemowit Laski 
<zlaski@apple.com> wrote:

> Ok, here is a new, "leaner and meaner" version of the Pascal string patch
> that I submitted on June 15.  Per Zack Weinberg's suggestion, I removed
> all modifications in cpplib sources, and moved \p handling to
> lex_string(). Also, I've added a blurb in extend.texi describing the
> usage of Pascal literals.

I am not in favor on a technical basis.  Too much complication for too
little win.

Stan often points out that there are political issues here, too, regarding
Apple maintaining it's own version of GCC.  However, if there is going
to be an FSF mandate to incorporate Apple changes for the sake of
eliminating the Apple fork, then we need to get that message from the FSF;
it's not for us to judge as GCC maintainers.

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